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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

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A recent University of Phoenix College of Education survey showed that about 58% of teachers use educational apps and 41% use social media. With this knowledge, administrators can leverage their data to make smart decisions about using the apps that will best improve learning. Growth is particularly high in web-based devices.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Duke University ran a widely read lecture capture survey. Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. Conferences ran streaming video events. And it has.

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. ” Via Campus Technology : “Survey: Instructional Designers ‘Pivotal’ in Tech Adoption.” – this time in science. ” asks The Atlantic.