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The History of the Pedometer (and the Problems with Learning Analytics)

Hack Education

These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. Yes, that’s just one study.

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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

techlearning

A recent University of Phoenix College of Education survey showed that about 58% of teachers use educational apps and 41% use social media. With this knowledge, administrators can leverage their data to make smart decisions about using the apps that will best improve learning. Growth is particularly high in web-based devices.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

As schools increasingly outsource services to companies, “going from managing staff to managing vendors requires a whole new set of capabilities and skills for CIOs [chief information officers],” he tells EdSurge. How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?). 1 priority for 2016?

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They Said it Better Than I Can

Mistakengoal.com

The fall semester was very, very busy but one reason why I haven’t written anything is that there are so many eloquent, informed people who have written things that I want to say much better than I could have done so. Microsoft Social Media Collective Research Blog : The title of this blog tells you almost all you need to know.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

Edsurge

However, I think the whole system could benefit if there were more town hall events like this, where faculty get together with the students outside of class for formal or informal type meetings, to discuss the curriculum going forward. I see for example some professors doing an informal course evaluation midway of the semester.

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

Edsurge

The LINK Lab is a hub international scholars exploring the digitization of knowledge and learning and how this process impacts education. Siemens also serves on the advisory board of learning analytics company Civitas Learning and is a mentor to startups in Intel’s Education Accelerator.

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8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact

Kitaboo on EdTech

From self-learning to flipped classroom approach, we have seen technology make a considerable impact on the learning and teaching methodologies. With numerous benefits to offer, digital learning has become an important part of the education system. Social Media in Learning. Immersive Learning with AR and VR.

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