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How Enhanced Homework Detection Makes Securly Aware Student Wellness Monitoring Even More Reliable and Accurate

Securly

Wellness Levels give student services teams invaluable insight into the students who need immediate attention, as well as those who are trending negatively. If an assignment references topics like war, violence, suicide, or death, the potential exists that the student’s work will trigger a false positive alert.

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What’s an HBX Again? Nevermind. Harvard Business School Rebrands Its Online Offerings.

Edsurge

From now on the school will instead refer to its online offerings under a more straightforward banner, Harvard Business School Online. At the time it seemed a bandwagon full of elite colleges were starting courses that ended in “X,” making the whole trend feel a bit like an experimental beta test (and one that might not last).

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HE Challenges: Combating declining completion rates

Neo LMS

Preferring to offer up innovative case studies from across the HE sector (rather than just discuss the issue) today’s blog will look at declining completion rates, and ways in which some universities are addressing them. Last time we started to explore the top four challenges facing higher education in the US.

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Can EdTech enable Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?

Neo LMS

Teaching soft skills, commonly referred to as Social Emotional Learning (SEL), is increasingly important in an educational environment, determined that students are graduated from both K12 as well as higher education primed and ready for a dynamic and changing future job market. Smart use of data.

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Not Just Classroom Supplies: Teachers Also Buy Edtech With Their Own Money

Edsurge

When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. That’s arguably the case for U.S. smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from renowned investor Mary Meeker. A different ‘digital divide’ has emerged.

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Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media for ‘worrisome behavior’

eSchool News

The Chicago program – called “Supporting Our Students” – is part of a national trend, as more districts have started paying contractors for social media monitoring services in recent years. In some cases, officers with CPD’s Gang School Safety Team met with students at their schools to discuss troubling posts.

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Digital Content Distribution in Education: Top 7 Tips to Creating a Successful Strategy

Kitaboo on EdTech

They allow for the integration of videos, interactive elements, reference resources and so on. These are a few tips to help update your content: Keep an Eye on Trends : Keep an eye on industry trends and developments and update your content accordingly. These enable viewers to interact with the content as the video plays.