Remove Classroom Remove Digital Learning Remove Learning Analytics Remove Libraries
article thumbnail

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

EdTech4Beginners

With the advent of the Internet, some schools have started offering classes fully online for maximum flexibility, while other brick-and-mortar institutions are incorporating digital tools into their classroom and at-home assignments. Virtual Classrooms Help Teachers Create Homework Assignments.

Classroom 138
article thumbnail

Colleges Need to Build Digital Quads to Support Social Learning for Online Students

Edsurge

Yet we tend to overlook how ingrained social learning is in our institutions, especially in higher education—how purposefully college campuses are designed to maximize the accidental run-ins and organic engagements. Moreover, creating digital spaces for student interactions in and outside of classes can have multiple additional benefits.

LMS 131
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

In this blog we will look at how educational publishers and students can benefit by creating and using eBooks for STEM learning. Advantages of STEM-based eBooks for students in STEM Learning: 1. Digital Libraries Offer Additional Learning Resources. Active Learning with Interactive Elements.

eBook 61
article thumbnail

Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Even academics.

Trends 40
article thumbnail

Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June.

article thumbnail

15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. With every new year comes new ideas. By Kathy Schrock, Wilkes University.

Trends 111
article thumbnail

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The Flipped Classroom". WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds.

Pearson 145