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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

With EdTech gaining ground, educational institutions, including schools and higher education institutions are increasingly leveraging the advances in technology to support their classrooms. At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds.

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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

More than a third of adjuncts in the Center for Digital Learning study, which was conducted by Hanover Research, said low pay and lack of benefits or job security affected their ability to engage with students and the learning students take with them from class. It’s not fair to them — we know that.

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How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S.

eSchool News

One that affirms and celebrates their identities and helps them learn about and understand others? Today’s technology presents us with answers. has rapidly grown over the last three decades, technology has advanced even faster. Technology can also assist in solving the issue of the limited number of languages available.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

What does it mean to be human in a digital age? Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

Neo LMS

If e-learning came to life as a method to augment face-to-face learning, it is now an approach to education that is bigger than the traditional method it was meant to support. This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in e-learning.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Teachable Moments: What We Learn When We Teach

Edsurge

First up is Christina Romero, a digital learning coach with Santa Fe Public Schools in New Mexico. They were able to do the copy for the websites in their writing and humanities classes, and I got to just focus on the technology aspect. Finally, we hear from Rudy Azcuy, CEO of Teach n' Kids Learn.

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