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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

Nguyen talked with EdSurge about how to support schools with bring your own device (BYOD) programs, why SSO boosts security, and how it saves his teachers 2500 hours of instruction time each month. Plus, we’re a BYOD environment. After two years, that number had soared to 29,000 users out of a possible 32,000.

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Trends, challenges, and developments for higher education’s next 5 years

Bryan Alexander

The New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report for higher education* just derived eighteen concepts for its upcoming report. A quick note before approaching these: remember that the technology items are only 1/3rd of the current report. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Learning Analytics & Adaptive Learning.

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The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environment

TeachThought - Learn better.

Technologically-based tools provide opportunities for students to learn both in and out of the classroom. The use of technological innovations such as cloud computing, mobile learning, bring?your?own?device Social learning networks, e?portfolios, Several tools are explicitly designed to support teachers.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. I haven’t mentioned anything about on-campus educational technology mainly because I’m almost entirely focussed on wholly online learning now. If I was asked I would say that the BYOD trend will continue to increase. What will be less big in 2014?

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. I haven’t mentioned anything about on-campus educational technology mainly because I’m almost entirely focussed on wholly online learning now. If I was asked I would say that the BYOD trend will continue to increase. What will be less big in 2014?

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