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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

Edsurge

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

It is recommended by AICET in its assessment guidelines that “at institution/ University level, upper limit need to arrive for lower order skills (for example, no more than 40% weightage for knowledge-oriented questions)”. To categorize different types of assessment tools, the UGC assessment guidelines use four categories.

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4 Reasons to Attend the Ohio Educational Technology Conference 2014: Check Out the Keynote Lineup!

The 21st Century Principal

Jack Uldrich, Renowned Global Futurist and Best Selling Author Why Future Trends in Higher Education Demand Unlearning In the past 100 years, the world has witnessed a startling amount of change—everything from mass industrialization and globalization to space flight and longer life expectancies.

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Why Some Investors Say Edtech ‘Doom and Gloom’ is Overhyped

Edsurge

It showed the industry, Batra says, that consumers have become agreeable to purchasing edtech. Atin Batra: Let me start by saying that the current public market meltdown has affected all industries, including education. Right now, actually, I’m thinking about how we can improve completion rates for MOOCs and online courses.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There is a burden being carried by CA school districts, each struggling individually with how to manage technology policies and guidelines appropriately for the future. First up: 3D prosthetic hands Scientists work on backing up human brain with computers A MOOC MYSTERY: WHERE DO ONLINE STUDENTS GO? What do you think? Share them here.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

Industry, not the child’s imagination as Seymour would have it, largely dictates the shape and direction of the CS trend. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. And what does that oft-repeated phrase “ learn to code ” even mean ? Only “1.86