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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Let’s discuss these components one by one.

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Edtech Trends From 2020 And Beyond

Ask a Tech Teacher

I’m the CTO of a tech company and for more than five years I have been busy with teaching programming courses and sharing my expertise with novice specialists. However, due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus and the global lockdown, distance learning became vital in 2020. Big Data And Learning Analytics.

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The History of the Pedometer (and the Problems with Learning Analytics)

Hack Education

These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. So this is a talk about pedometers.

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Why Aren’t Schools Using the Apps They Pay For?

Edsurge

School leaders expect students and teachers to be using their licensed apps all the time, says Ryan Baker, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Learning Analytics. Many apps, independent of how long or often students use them, have no relationship to learning outcomes. A new report that analyzes 1.48

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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses. Learn more about this process in this accompanying blog post.). However, we’re just one company.

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3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school

The Hechinger Report

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. For example, students who visited Varsity Tutors more frequently had higher reading scores.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Most concerning are decisions that have a negative impact on student outcomes (whether academic or social) or in more extreme circumstances even jeopardize the health and well-being of children and youth. More tangible costs result from ill-considered decisions that can result in the waste, fraud and abuse of public funds.