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Current Trends in Education

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Attend workshops, webinars, and conferences to learn about emerging trends, innovative teaching methods, and best practices. Conferences often feature keynote speakers, workshops, and discussions on current trends and future directions in education. These events provide exposure to new ideas and foster collaboration.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

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READING THE TEA LEAVES : Futurist Bryan Alexander ’s pre-conference workshop delved into techniques for predicting the future, as well as an overview of higher-ed technology trends from the New Media Consortium’s recent Horizon report. We’re only at the tip of the iceberg with learning analytics.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

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You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. These days we do a lot of workshops and special projects around freedom of information and privacy issues and advocacy work because that act was passed back in 1992. Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Google Reader. Course Signals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” Via Vice : “ Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service.” .” Also via The Chronicle : “At Educause Meeting, IT Professionals Discuss Misconceptions on Campuses.” Edsurge is also holding an event this week.