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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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Promoting student well-being through serious games

Neo LMS

And while we have already discussed the benefits gamification can bring to classroom , today we are exploring a whole different and positive story about gaming and its many applications that can help children cope with difficult situations such as school refusal, and even improve academic performance. Why serious games? Well, yes and no.

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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

TeacherCast

Coupled with a variety of added benefits, each LMS comes with its own positives and negatives. Schoology is an LMS that has the visual appeal of a social media application like Facebook, which provides students with a platform they are comfortable in. Classroom isn’t a full-blown LMS. And which one do I choose?”.

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Why gamification works [Part 1]

Neo LMS

Building on my curiosity about the way games like Candy Crush affect our minds, I thought we’d take a closer look at gamification. Recently, learning system and content designers have been adding game elements to learning management systems , and it is this type of gamification we will explore today. Gamification versus play.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. 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. The LMS A few themes: first, LMSes trying to resemble the modern (i.e.,

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.