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Free Conference! Design and Delivery in a Blended Learning Jungle

The CoolCatTeacher

Kasey Bell will cover this as one of the five characteristics of the Dynamic Learning Framework. Joni Degner and Mark Schwartz will show how to use data to improve writing. Blended Learning. Wednesday, August 19 – STEM Transitioning to remote and blended learning with STEM. Math, Google, and Projects.

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Education Technology Trends for 2017: An Interview With Martin McKay.

EdTech4Beginners

This is already happening a lot in the US and Canada but we’ll see a move towards this throughout the rest of the markets Texthelp operate in as well, where people will move to outsourced storage, provisioning by Google and so on. They can hop on a Google Hangout and work on joint projects with students around the world.

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

Iterating Toward Openness

Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning. How to develop good R packages (for open science) by Maelle Salmon. However, that permission gives you no insight into what needs to be improved.

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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

After making a few rounds in the behemoth expo hall, we’ve rounded up the ones that made our ears perk up and what edtechies should look out for: Big news from the blue chips OGLING GOOGLE UPDATES: With over 70 million G Suite for Education users, Google’s education tools dominate U.S. the game-based learning platform, is going mobile.

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Against the 3A’s of EdTech: AI, Analytics, and Adaptive Technologies in Education

ProfHacker

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long.

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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. Although this quote mentions Microsoft, the same would apply to Google applications and many others. More on that below.)