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Assigning Homework In the Digital Age: The Benefits of Virtual Classrooms

EdTech4Beginners

Incorporating these tools helps educators keep their students engaged in a time when online media is a huge part of many students’ lives. Education technology platforms like Study.com use Virtual Classrooms to seamlessly integrate teacher feedback, dynamic learning, analytics, and personalization when assigning homework.

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Can Notifications Encourage Struggling College Students to Succeed?

MindShift

The information rarely has anything to do with helping improve student learning in real time. Now, more schools such as Valencia College are dipping their toes deeper into the streams of what some have dubbed predictive and learning analytics. Yep, more annoying ed-tech buzzwords.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals.

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