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Top 5 LMS benefits for HE students

Neo LMS

Instant messaging doesn’t have to belong just to social media. So when they log in their university LMS and check their learning analytics, they can take the best action in order to meet those goals. 5 LMS benefits for HE students. The sheer existence of students was the reason LMSs were created.

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What are this year’s top trends at SXSW EDU?

eSchool News

Race, Social Media & the Role of Schools. Future of Assessment & Accountability. Beyond Rubrics: Embedded Assessment in Making. Playful Assessment: Don’t Stop the Fun. Related sessions: Active Learning for Engagement and Effectiveness. Learning Sciences and Edtech: Uncovering the Facts.

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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

techlearning

A recent University of Phoenix College of Education survey showed that about 58% of teachers use educational apps and 41% use social media. Impact tracks the link between student usage on a particular app and how that may or may not influence their performance on assessments. Growth is particularly high in web-based devices.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?). WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? Alexander sees an uptick in collaborations between businesses and universities, “especially now that colleges are under the spotlight to prove they’re preparing students for careers.”

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

Edsurge

Simmons: I went you an expeditionary learning high school, which it's essentially a really fancy title for experimental and project-based learning, and I absolutely loved it. The whole goal there is that every assessment that you're doing is project-based, so that you have a project at the end of every assignment and every class.

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Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

Hack Education

As part of the course, students are engaging in a “Great Ed-Tech Debate,” arguing one side or another of a variety of topics: that technology enhances learning, that technology is a force for equity, that social media is ruining childhood, and so on. Testing and assessment are the largest category of this market.

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