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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

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It helps them find a balance between frontal lessons and individual study, interaction and reflection, formal evaluation and self-assessment. . One of the most popular tools that achieve this goal is the learning management system (LMS). They don’t only help educators teach and assess students. Personalized learning paths .

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

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Online games and assessments. According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. school principals, 97% of respondents said that their school was already using some form of edtech to personalize learning. . What are the benefits of creating a personalized learning environment? Digital field trips

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What’s edtech got to do with growth mindset?

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It’s no longer what happens in the learning environment, but what happens when edtech comes into the mix and how we can enrich that environment. Here are a few ideas on using edtech to promote growth mindset: Showing progress through competency-based learning. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning.

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

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Nueva has been teaching socio-emotional competencies since the sixties (originally billed as Self-Science). Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. Assessing the assessments.

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Don’t Teach Grit. Embed It.

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But what has been left unsaid is how our current system of education works systematically against instilling these skills in students, and how we could naturally embed the development of grit in students—in a way that doesn’t talk explicitly about grit—by moving to a competency-based learning system.

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Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘On Task’

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“We use data from learning management systems, student information systems, discussion forums, assessments and observation to build a model of the student,” Siemens says. This data gets compiled and assessed, and we’re able to identify groups of students who display certain attributes.”

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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