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Top 5 LMS benefits for HE students

Neo LMS

What’s more, even the most dull online course can be made more engaging for students if gamification techniques are implemented during their design phase. Even K-12 students need to have at least some agency over when and how much time they spend learning. Instant messaging doesn’t have to belong just to social media.

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The History of the Pedometer (and the Problems with Learning Analytics)

Hack Education

These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. So this is a talk about pedometers.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Gaming and gamification should continue to attract experimental and creative faculty, plus allied staff, but that looks like a very slow growth area for now. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Social media is something higher ed is ambivalent about.

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8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact

Kitaboo on EdTech

Most of the educational institutes today have adopted mobile learning into their learning ecosystems, benefiting students and teachers alike. Social Media in Learning. Who would have ever thought that social media would one day be accepted as part of the learning process? Download Now!

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