Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. This grants schools more insight into their learning behavior, which then helps teachers come up with more effective curriculums in the future. Videos: Why, How, Options.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Join me Thursday, September 6th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Angie McAllister, the Director of Data Innovation at Apollo Group, where she specializes in building adaptive learning systems for adult learners.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Of course, it is necessary to have technology focused on operational effectiveness, but be wary that this does not detract from other priorities. I guarantee you that a social learning tool is what most administrators wish they had implemented prior to COVID-19. These disengaged students are the first in line to leave your institution.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2017

Two monitors means that both the student and the advisor can easily look at the same performance data, interpret the information together, and agree on a course of action. Embedded learning analytics are not like rotisserie ovens: you can’t set them and forget them. percentage points.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. That means seeing analytics as a [supplement] to the human connection.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning. However, that insight does not grant you the permission necessary to make improvements to ineffective course materials.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Of course, it is necessary to have technology focused on operational effectiveness, but be wary that this does not detract from other priorities. I guarantee you that a social learning tool is what most administrators wish they had implemented prior to COVID-19. These disengaged students are the first in line to leave your institution.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Of course, it is necessary to have technology focused on operational effectiveness, but be wary that this does not detract from other priorities. I guarantee you that a social learning tool is what most administrators wish they had implemented prior to COVID-19. These disengaged students are the first in line to leave your institution.

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Neo LMS

MAY 26, 2016

Online education comes with higher interactivity between students and teachers and learning materials, and also more feedback. The success for entry-level employees is based a lot on their ability to gain in-depth knowledge of new subjects, research and analyze data, and apply learning in real world situations.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I have struggled in the past to explain my views on this to a subset of computer scientists I know (my past professors and others in edtech) who don’t normally think critically about education, and perhaps the ones who do think critically about education can give me feedback on how to make this clearer. Some Critical Questions.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And STEM learning includes advanced course work that promotes creative thinking and supports experiential learning to drive innovation. eBooks can work very well in sync with STEM-rich programs, providing the right amount of engagement and interactive learning opportunities. Active Learning with Interactive Elements.

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IAD Learning

JULY 26, 2017

15 Strategies You Can Follow Today to Successfully Deploy Your Learning Analytics Tool. Deploying a learning analytics tool in your organization brings many benefits, including improving your students’ engagement and their success rates. Lead the project from the learning innovation side, not from IT.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Your predictive analog is the thing that says, ‘Given you have 12 gallons left in your car and you get 28 miles per gallon, here’s how much further you can go.’ Your prescriptive solution is your GPS that shows you how to get to your destination.” WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

don’t pursue STEM courses because they find the subjects too difficult. But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging. Improves Critical Thinking Skills.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

Now, the mission is to figure out what data to track and how to use it. One key piece of information is how students are using educational technology, such as when do they access their devices, what programs are they using, and how long they use them. They also needed to have an overall program managing the data flow.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Nguyen talked with EdSurge about how to support schools with bring your own device (BYOD) programs, why SSO boosts security, and how it saves his teachers 2500 hours of instruction time each month. How has SSO impacted your IT department? Want to see the math on how OUSD saved 2500 hours of instructional time per month?

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

Of course, AI is not new to our world. AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. How much more can we afford to lose?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

The LINK Lab is a hub international scholars exploring the digitization of knowledge and learning and how this process impacts education. Siemens also serves on the advisory board of learning analytics company Civitas Learning and is a mentor to startups in Intel’s Education Accelerator.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. Some Wikipedia entries have examples of how to do calculations, such as adding fractions or figuring out the slope of a line.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2016

Doing these things seamlessly, as part of the daily routine, will provide a focused, ongoing learning experience about what is working, what is not, and how to continuously improve services and outcomes. We have learned how to increasingly use data efficiently to understand how well our learners are doing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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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. Of course, the broad threads of these worries are quite old. But how old? Parents and teachers question the rise of standardized tests and their primacy in education. Instead, grades are.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Of course, test scores are just one piece of data colleges turn to when predicting which students are likely to excel in rigorous courses, enrich campus life with a unique perspective, graduate in four years, or even help balance the books with a large tuition check. Sometimes an admissions process can be extremely subjective.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 27, 2022

Designing mobile-first responsive content helps students to go through their courses anytime and anywhere. eBooks can be embedded with many features to enhance the learning experience. With eBooks, the course content can be embedded with videos, augmented reality , audio files etc. Related: How to Create an Interactive eBook .

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

This fall I’m once again teaching IPT 531: Introduction to Open Education at BYU (check it out – it’s designed so anyone can participate) and today I’m beginning a pilot run-through of the course redesign with a small number of students. or being able to count the course toward graduation.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learn analytically. It’s up to the student how to proceed to build a solution, developing from concept to prototype via a range of iterations, sketches and reflections. There is no “right” answer.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

At the same time, I’ve been thinking about how to answer several questions I’m often asked. If so, how many should I use and what kind? Of course, I could have stopped everything else in my life for a few months and learned most of what I needed to know to answer these questions myself. You get the idea.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

Colleges and universities are doubling down on learning analytics. They’re trying to figure out how to better use the rich data they’re increasingly capturing about their students and how to improve our collective understanding of the impact of analytics on teaching and learning. McKay is the Arthur F.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Few would care, of course, except those of us struggling to make money in this “new economy.” He could decide what to release and what not to release and when and how to release it. Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE).

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

And the flair was fitting, since success will end up being based not so much on how well the software works, but on how well its creators can attract momentum to their cause—and change the culture of the academic profession to make teaching an area professors are excited to make discoveries around.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

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. This collaboration allows candidates to view theory in practice and makes learning on campus more authentic.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

It’s about how to teach citizenship in the age of fake news. The tools of data analytics have developed to the point where we can now mine this data and learn from our past experiences how to do a better job teaching and how to tailor education to the individual. That means our minds all work differently.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. Educators will use the data from the past two years to determine what works and where to go “all-in” to support student learning and classroom efficiencies.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“ How George Mason Became Koch ’s Academic Darling.” Is Teaching Second-Graders How to Ride Bikes. The New Yorker profiles Sphero ’s learn-to-code toy for kids but says dumb things about Seymour Papert’s Logo so I’m not sure why I’m even linking to this. ” “D.C. Or something.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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