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How AI Can Address Critical Challenges Facing Higher Education

Edsurge

AI-enhanced learning analytics provide more comprehensive data analysis, enabling professors to understand student behaviors and needs while identifying at-risk students early in their courses. EdSurge: What critical challenges is the higher education industry currently facing? Right now, there are worries about generative AI.

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Learning Engineering and Reese’s Cups

Iterating Toward Openness

Reposting this message I sent to the Learning Analytics mailing list earlier this morning. When I hear people say “learning engineering” I hear them talking about Reese’s cups. You measure its success at supporting student learning using a variety of analysis techniques. You rinse and repeat.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc. but less likely to engage the software to create lessons.

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Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work

Hack Education

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. To adopt test proctoring software is to maintain a pedagogical practice based on mistrust, surveillance, and punishment. This should not come as a surprise.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

Your most recent episode was about learning analytics , and listening to it reminded me that the focus of edtech folks these days is less about the tools being used and more about finding ways to improve student retention and learning. That means seeing analytics as a [supplement] to the human connection.

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

Edsurge

It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. But participants estimated that just 4 percent of their institutions’ developmental and general education classes use adaptive software. A Word of Caution.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. He also leads the the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge ( LINK ) Research Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington. Siemens says rich data about students is a game changer for higher education.