Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s time once again for The Hulk of edtech conferences— Educause , which kicks off fully on Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif. When he first started the account in 2010, he told no one, and he snuck to corners of the conference center so no one would catch him in the 140-character act. It’s big, expecting some 7,000 attendees.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

There’s been a lot of time, effort and money expense from companies and from researchers on creating learning analytics dashboards for teachers,” said Ken Holstein, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. “If Student psychology appears to be at play.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Attend workshops, webinars, and conferences to learn about emerging trends, innovative teaching methods, and best practices. Educational Conferences and Events: Attend educational conferences and events, both locally and nationally. Professional development can provide valuable insights and networking opportunities.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The ones going to LAK [the Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference] who are using data science to innovate in learning science, they don’t go to the OLC [Online Learning Consortium] conference.” “Each one of them is in their own network, and these networks don’t talk to each other.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

Pardo piloted OnTask in March 2017 at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Vancouver. “We We ran a tutorial with 38 experts at the conference,” he says. “I “The text that reaches the students is written entirely by humans, and that makes it a much more personalized conversation.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.” He made the remarks during a session this week at the annual conference of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, where he announced the project. We still have tribes,” he said. Mitchell L.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

In Boston, conference-goers heard how higher-ed tech will affect teaching and learning in years to come, questioned the values and assumptions behind those predictions, and learned predictive techniques to apply to their daily lives. We’re only at the tip of the iceberg with learning analytics.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. Educators at a school can also set up their own channels and video conferences.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Speaking to an audience of researchers from the education industry last week at the Bay Area Learning Analytics Conference , held at the University of California at Berkeley, Deb shared how Chegg uses a Stanford-built tool to try to keep out students who just want an online tutor to do their homework.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I caught up with her after her keynote speech during the EDEN summer conference in Jonkoping, Sweden and interviewed her on camera. It was a fascinating interview, giving some keen insights into how university libraries might operate in the near future.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The issue of privacy also emerged during a session on libraries and data at the annual Educause conference earlier this month. How much library data do we want to be part of the student learning record?” It’s really central to the student-learning experience. “We’re not tracking what they search for.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If your school uses Edmodo as a Learning Management System, roll out Edmodo for Parents so parents can keep updated on how their children are doing anytime, not just during report cards and parent conferences. Jupiter iO is an all-in-one cloud-based gradebook, LMS, SIS (Student Information System), and Learning Analytics solution.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Digital instructional materials must be subject to public inspection to ensure accuracy and freedom from bias and – in the case of software applications – that the software code treats data about student learning responsibly, securely, and transparently.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 9, 2015

Barcelona - the home of Gaudi This year's EDEN annual summer conference kicks off in beautiful Barcelona later today with a welcome event and the awarding of several EDEN Fellowships. The EDEN Network of Academics and Professional (NAP) will also be hosting several #EDENChat sessions live on Twitter from the conference.

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Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. ” It comes from remarks given in 1929 by Dean Emeritus Stanley Coulter of Purdue University as recorded in the Secretarial Notes of the Tenth Annual Conferences of Deans and Advisers of Men.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ringelstein and Renaissance Last February, Wisconsin-based learning analytics and assessment platform Renaissance Learning acquired UClass , a San Francisco-based startup that billed itself back then as a “Dropbox for Education.” The lawsuit is still pending. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. I think we are entering a phase of many different technologies becoming more sophisticated and more integrated into education eg mobile learning, social media, learning analytics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

It is slated to be presented at the March 2024 annual conference of the Society of Learning Analytics in Kyoto, Japan. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform ,” so it may still be revised.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

One crucial impact of mobile technologies in education is the way they tear down our old boundary walls, the ones around in-session classes, or conferences, or meetings. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. I expect to see numerous stories along these lines in 2016.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. There will be small scale examples in traditional higher education institutions. These types of projects will be just outliers in 2014. What will be less big in 2014?

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. There will be small scale examples in traditional higher education institutions. These types of projects will be just outliers in 2014. What will be less big in 2014?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. Subscribe to their blog.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

This conference attracts plenty of venture capitalists and companies in education. Shifting gears a little bit, I hear your role is changing at UMUC, and that you’re taking on a new job where you’ll be looking at next-generation ideas like AI and learning analytics.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

School renovation, safety upgrades to infrastructure, establishing healthier in-person learning environments, expanded tech capabilities, special education, assessment and accountability systems, parent and family engagement—all fundable but must be evidence based. Department of Education , and the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. Conferences for teachers from coast to coast brim with representatives from the multibillion-dollar technology industry, many of them promising to help teachers provide customized tracks for education.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. Conferences for teachers from coast to coast brim with representatives from the multibillion-dollar technology industry, many of them promising to help teachers provide customized tracks for education. “You

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Conferences ran streaming video events. 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. The rise of video carried over into education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

I delivered this talk today at the OEB MidSummit conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. I recognize that the theme of this conference is “shaping the future of learning” but I want to talk a little bit about the past.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Innovative predictive analytics are essential for businesses, especially tech companies. They’ve got annual conferences on the stuff. So why aren’t more of the best minds in higher education doing more to tap those data streams to improve teaching and learning? Yep, more annoying ed-tech buzzwords.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Facebook had its big developer conference this week, and honestly I couldn’t bear to pay attention. Via Campus Technology : “When Learning Analytics Violate Student Privacy.” Upgrades and Downgrades. I have no idea if there were education-related announcements. ” The vendor in question: Access Group.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. Course Signals. Students who completed courses were more likely to complete courses.)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Educause is holding its annual conference this week. Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” . “​Filling the Other Skills Gap ” by Trace Urdan writing in Edsurge. Via The Hechinger Report : “Without changes in education, the future of work will leave more people behind.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences." ” It’s a process incredibly similar to what’s marketed in education as “learning analytics” – tracking the social media and digital activity of students to identify those who might be “at risk.” I call b t.)

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Big 12 Conference’s Board of Directors on Wednesday requested ‘a full accounting of the circumstances surrounding the sexual assaults’ at Baylor University.” “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

.” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies. ” Well someone has to keep paying for vendor spaces at ed-tech conferences, I guess. Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.”

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