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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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Libraries Look to Big Data to Measure Their Worth—And Better Help Students

Edsurge

Libraries have long counted up the books on their shelves to show their value. That meant Harvard University’s library (with 18.9-million These days, though, libraries are finding new ways to measure their worth. Many college leaders now see encouraging library use as a way to boost student success.

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The EDEN interviews: Rosie Jones

Learning with 'e's

Image by Timothy Vollmer on Flickr Want to know about the future of libraries? Based at the British Open University , Rosie is Director of Library Services, a central component to the success of the distance education institution.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

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. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post.

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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.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Students would be required to pay.

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