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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When teaching a course on edtech, it’s logical to start with a look at how professors can select the best tech tools for their courses. There are more edtech tools to choose, from. For that matter, what is technology?

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

The most effective educational tools and services are ones developed and informed by those with firsthand experience in schools. But the reality is that there are not enough people with this background in the edtech industry. The journey into the edtech industry is different for everyone.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

For many teachers, edtech conferences are a major highlight of the school year and a great opportunity to connect with fellow educators. On the flipside, it also means that teachers, ed tech specialists or principals can easily get overwhelmed by the amount of tools and new information. Keep the necessary information.

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An overview of active Learning.

Linways Technologies

Dr. Sadiq A, from the TKM college of engineering, spoke about his own experiments with active learning at the Discuss Education BarCamp hosted by Linways Technologies. Seminars : Dividing topics among students and assigning them to take seminars will also help to implement active learning in a class.

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

Ask a Tech Teacher

We inadvertently learn from our daily social interactions, with most of our informal learning happens through online sources of information. Seminars held online, are called webinars. Vivek Singh is a Content Specialist at WizIQ, an EdTech company that offers an LMS and Virtual Classroom platform to educators. .

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Amazon Taps Stanford Professor, Candace Thille to Lead Internal Professional Learning

Edsurge

One of the most prominent researchers and critics of how learning technologies are built and used in higher education is joining, temporarily, one of the biggest tech companies in the world. That’s a problem, she argues, as these tools increasingly inform the decisions that instructors make.

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Best Platforms for Group Discussions

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Teachers can also hold virtual office hours, where students can drop in to ask questions or discuss class materials in a more informal setting. In a university seminar, for example, the instructor can divide students into smaller groups for more focused discussions or group work.

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