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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Learn what it means, what benefits it brings, and what teachers need to create a personalized learning environment for students. What is personalized learning? Read more: How to make competency-based education possible through an intelligent learning platform. Personalized learning recommendations.

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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

Edsurge

For Ryan Baker, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center of Learning Analytics, there is one thing in particular he’d like school leaders to keep in mind: providing better tech support for students and families. “I I definitely didn’t count on much tech support from my school district.”

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The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle

Iterating Toward Openness

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

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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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

Edsurge

Tuniversitiy’s first offering is a book on how to reproduce Williams’ own song, “Happy,” and includes step-by-step tutorials on how students can create the song for themselves within Garageband. Upgrades also include Smarty Ants Español, a program designed to help K-2 Spanish-speaking students learn how to read in Spanish.

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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

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? It’s definitely reduced the workload around here.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Wikipedia has a lot of mathematics definitions.” Yes, even kindergarteners are using apps at school.)