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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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Is AI a Pathway to Better Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

Create Guidelines: Create guidelines for the use of generative AI, ensuring accessibility across different regions and addressing diverse student and family needs. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work. A Strategic Roadmap for Integrating Gen AI Into Schools 1.

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The Sky is Falling, or is it?

My Island View

The other obvious lesson is that if students are accessing technology to assess and learn and create content, then at the very least, educators need an awareness of that technology their students are using. People are using it professionally to do many things in industry and business settings. This is an industry-wide need.

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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?

Edsurge

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. Panelists raised concerns as well: What are the ethical guidelines? What source data is being used?

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Rising ransomware attacks on education demand defense readiness

eSchool News

And with both higher and lower education institutions reporting the highest rates of attacks among all industries surveyed in a recent study, the need for increased defense readiness in the education sector has never been more evident. Don’t be afraid to lean on a third-party expert for help assessing the effectiveness of your defenses.

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Here’s why anecdotes are as important as data in edtech decisions

eSchool News

Yet, when it comes to edtech, the consensus industry-wide is that recommendations from your peers mean nothing when compared to data points. With little to no oversight from government or industry regulators to hold them accountable, companies can ride into town with a new product and lofty claims.

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6 Factors Community Colleges Should Consider in Their COVID-19 Response

Edsurge

He added that the group will look two its regional workforce board and an industry advisory council to plan its offerings. To do this, they’ll need to lead in technology rather than lag behind industry, and help define the new technologies they need to help students succeed. Turner Cortez, Ph.D.,

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