Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

School leaders expect students and teachers to be using their licensed apps all the time, says Ryan Baker, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Learning Analytics. Schools will buy these licenses, and then they never really get touched,” says Baker, who analyzed the data and co-authored the report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. Apps are increasingly common in U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? That’s where the data truly tells a story.” How do you collect it?

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Data Classroom Education Assessment 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 31, 2023

Table of Contents Five Surprising Benefits of Digital Textbooks Increased Accessibility Increased Engagement Personalized Learning Data Analytics Updates Summing It Up Five Surprising Benefits of Digital Textbooks Digital textbooks continue to evolve and adapt to the ever-changing needs of students and educators.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

One example of this in education would be instead of having a $3000 interactive whiteboard, a teacher can plug a $30 chromecast into a projector and everyone in the classroom can collaborate on an assignment. Another example of this is smartphones. Will Learning analytics have a major impact upon Education this year?

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 10, 2018

Education technology platforms like Study.com use Virtual Classrooms to seamlessly integrate teacher feedback, dynamic learning, analytics, and personalization when assigning homework. Assignments from virtual classrooms can also be shared on other learning management systems like Google Classrooms, Blackboard, and Schoology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

Pardo piloted OnTask in March 2017 at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Vancouver. “We OnTask’s success depends heavily on the quality (and quantity) of student data available. OnTask’s success depends heavily on the quality (and quantity) of student data available.

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Software Competency Based Learning Learning Analytics LMS 96

techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Impact tracks the link between student usage on a particular app and how that may or may not influence their performance on assessments. Educators need to know which products are likely to have a positive impact on learning for their students. Dr. Ryan S.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

So give them teaching assistants or do more peer assessment. Collecting Data: Bias, Surveillance & Control. For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long. This completely strips learners of their agency to control their own learning!

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Technology EdTech Learning Analytics Adaptive Learning 81

techlearning

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The way to find out is to capture and leverage ed tech data to measure program effectiveness. Recent advances in data mining provide a way to get data on tool cost and usage and map this information to outcome data such as assessments and then use these relationships in ways that make the information accessible and actionable.

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Classroom Outcomes Learning Data 54

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses. Learn more about this process in this accompanying blog post.). Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 114

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Assessment is subjective. And as many of these technologies do not monitor student performance, learning difficulties are not tracked or identified early; preventing intervention with supplementary and personalised supports. The Need for Autonomous Assessment. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

With a team of developers, designers, behavioral scientists, data scientists and student fellows, DIG helps translate digital engagement tools from innovation to infrastructure. These principles include understanding users and creating a minimum viable product, for example, and we apply them to each project. Then consider constraints.

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Advocacy Software MOOC Learning Analytics 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

device (BYOD) policies, learning analytics, open content, and remote or virtual laboratories provide flexibility in the personalization of learning, while also expanding learning capabilities beyond the classroom walls. Several representative examples of these innovations are highlighted below.

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Personalized Learning ePortfolio Learning Analytics Learning 40

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 20, 2019

Recent data from a test commonly taken by college-bound high school students found that only 20% of students are ready for courses typically required for a STEM major. For example, include a project where students have to build a functional prototype of a boat. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education.

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STEM Outcomes Course How To 70

Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

One firm predicted that the “ smart education and learning market ” will grow from $105.23 Testing and assessment are the largest category of this market. ” But even then we don’t think of the large mainframe computers and the terminals that students were using in the 1970s, for example. billion by 2020.

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IAD Learning

JULY 26, 2017

15 Strategies You Can Follow Today to Successfully Deploy Your Learning Analytics Tool. Deploying a learning analytics tool in your organization brings many benefits, including improving your students’ engagement and their success rates. Lead the project from the learning innovation side, not from IT.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Instead of searching for the right materials on the web, students can access multitude of content that are specific to their learning needs in the library and on their smart devices. Say for example, a student needs more information about kinetic energy. eBooks thus provide a collective learning experience at all times.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

This is a reprint from a series of posts I'm currently doing on data science in teaching, over at Medium. When it comes to learning data science, that’s easy for me, because I had no actual expertise to begin with when I started learning the subject in earnest this past summer. Although I have a Ph.D.

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Data Blackboard Learning Libraries 59

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. That’s the tech solutionism in this space, thinking that very complex and nuanced social issues can be solved with computers and data.”

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Data Learning Analytics Company Assessment 208

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” But here are some education-related stories: Via Education Week : “Privacy Experts Assess Potential K–12 Fallout From Facebook ’s Crisis of Trust.”

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Thirty percent of the company’s revenues come from assessments of one kind or another, which includes professional certification and apprenticeship programs, as well as summative exams. Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

While funds can go to various efforts in targeted areas, there will be a greater focus on school and district investments that are evidence based, sustainable, and data driven to demonstrate positive outcomes. For example, if Texas gets 10% of Title I dollars, it will get 10% of available ESSER dollars. An ARP Logistics Primer.

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Mobile Learning EdTech Company Data 87

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

Data: The Driving Force. Evidence of student learning, achievement and engagement is more pronounced and easier to manage in schools. But analytics tools, like CatchOn and Gaggle, helped schools and districts during the pandemic to aggregate data to monitor how learners fared digitally.

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

Let me explain… Sunlight is perhaps the ultimate example of a public good. They’re another prime example of a public good. Is the primary goal to improve student learning, increase graduation rates, or save students money? How would renewable assessments work in your discipline? OER are a lot like sunlight.

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OER Company Learning Analytics Outcomes 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

Colleges and universities are doubling down on learning analytics. They’re trying to figure out how to better use the rich data they’re increasingly capturing about their students and how to improve our collective understanding of the impact of analytics on teaching and learning. McKay is the Arthur F.

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Learning Analytics Learning Data Accessibility 97

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

But the organizers were playfully acknowledging the size of their project’s ambition—which they hope will spark a more data-driven and experimental approach to teaching at colleges around the country. He and his colleagues published an academic paper with the finding called “ Learning is Not a Spectator Sport.

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Software Learning Data Course 143

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. (In “Personalized learning,” depending on how you define it, dates back to Rousseau.

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Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

5G promises reliability, lightning-fast speeds, and much higher data capacities. Think of broadband speeds where large amounts of data can allow students to collaborate digitally from their schools or homes. Maria Armstrong, Executive Director, Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 104

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The networks of canals, for example, were built along rivers. It’s no surprise the Internet views us as objects, as products, our personal data as a commodity. But we’ve long used machines to measure and assess “intelligence” and to monitor and surveil for the sake of “intelligence.”

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Data Software Company System 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” The university recently decided not to partner with the for-profit ITT, and I do wonder if that decision counted as a positive or negative in Moody’s assessment.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

“In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports.

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has released data showing there were 539 institutions placed on heightened cash monitoring as of Dec. More about the politics of education data – particularly regarding undocumented students – in the data and surveillance section below. More via Bloomberg.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The company behind the ACT on Wednesday announced plans for a Center for Equity in Learning, which will focus on helping underserved students succeed in college and the work force.” ” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60