Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A consortium of 25 universities unveiled a new platform last month that will pull in information from systems across campus to bring richer analytics to college classrooms. To be clear, this is not data laundering, which would suggest that information is being whitewashed to make it seem more positive.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 23, 2023

Using KITABOO for eBook Analytics Conclusion What Is eBook Analytics? eBook analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data on how learners interact with eBooks. This data can include information on reading habits, engagement levels, and performance metrics.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 25, 2020

While they already had everything ready for in-school lessons, each remote lesson now requires teachers to convert these learning materials into forms more suitable for online education. Including hardware, software, training, professional development for teachers , and more. The Benefits Of Using Technology For Learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

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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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Accompanying the commitment to provide universal access to learning technologies for learners must be a parallel effort to ensure that all students have the age-appropriate skills to use those tools to meet their educational goals, including knowledge of basic computer operations, computer programming, and media and information literacy concepts.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A good teacher can promote these attitudes despite plagiarism-detection software, but the software itself does not do this. For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long. Collecting Data: Bias, Surveillance & Control. Some Critical Questions.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

With so much information being collected, there’s a danger that a teacher or administrator could see data that’s not necessary to their job and could compromise privacy laws. The first step was adopting data standards for all of their programs and informing the vendors of this new requirement. About the Moderator.

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Personalized Learning Data Learning Learning Analytics 61

Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

Together with the CRDC data and the new Schoolie information and analysis, GreatSchools will be able to “highlight issues of equity and opportunity in schools across the United States,” according to GreatSchools. The purchase follows a collaboration this past June between GreatSchools and the U.S. Franklin, Tenn.-based

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

But participants estimated that just 4 percent of their institutions’ developmental and general education classes use adaptive software. In a medical sociology class at the University of Georgia that used adaptive software from OpenStax, students with good discipline were irked they had to change their study habits. A Word of Caution.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Data Education Report Professional Learning 53

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Teams integrates with School Data Sync, which imports roster information from a school’s SIS, as well as Office 365 and OneNote Class Notebooks. With Teams, educators can now message students directly or set up chat channels for group projects, and there’s a classroom-wide messaging channel as well.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

“learning analytics” give you information about what needs improving in your course but doesn’t give you permission to make the changes. ? to do continuous improvement in education, you need OER (permission to change) plus analytics (info about what to change).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The DIG team identified and prioritized additional needs and quickly added members with expertise in user experience design, behavioral science, data science, software development and innovation advocacy. We continue to grow our capabilities in these areas and more as we foster a culture of learning in innovation at U-M.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

With more than $3 billion spent on ed tech products last year and more than 2,500 programs on the market, educators across the country need to know which products are likely to make a difference in teaching and learning. Join us for What Ed Tech Apps Work Best for Learning? In a research study into this issue, Dr. Ryan S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The smorgasbord of hardware and software at the show floor caters to a wide range of university IT needs, from security and bandwidth to proctoring and instruction. Three in 10 respondents—chief information officers and senior IT officers—said they started the academic year off with a smaller budget than the previous year.

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

Mistakengoal.com

DECEMBER 29, 2013

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. I’m very excited to follow her as she begins her research! Research Social Networking Services Student Affairs'

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

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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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics. Gamification for Learning. TTT platform was designed to provide modalities of interaction complementary alongside effective pedagogies, curriculums and existing tools such as paper, to enhance students’ development of literacy, tracing, and tactile learning. Leveraging Learning Analytics.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 22, 2024

They are not meant to be published as marketing or promotional material – but rather to entertain or inform the target audience. It takes special software to create digital magazines that deliver high engagement rates and responsive interfaces to suit a wide variety of devices. Are People Still Reading Digital Magazines?

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eBook Software Learning Analytics Strategy 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. I mean, one of its founders celebrated. Not sure anyone else did.)

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Earlier this year I also published an open source implementation of RISE in the Journal of Open Source Software. These are matrixed to create four ways of diagnosing how OER are working in support of student learning. I published the RISE framework last year with Bob Bodily and Rob Nyland, two amazing PhD students at BYU.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2023

eBooks Are Easy to Create and Distribute With online publishing , many publishing software have also emerged. In a cloud-based software the contents of the book are stored online, in one place. To upgrade it, one only needs to edit the existing information. These have made the creation of eBooks very easy.

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eBook Accessibility Software Learning Analytics 52

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 4, 2023

eBooks Are Easy to Create and Distribute With online publishing , many publishing software have also emerged. In a cloud-based software the contents of the book are stored online, in one place. To upgrade it, one only needs to edit the existing information. These have made the creation of eBooks very easy.

eBook 52

eBook Learning Analytics Software Accessibility 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself. Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics.

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2020

That’s basic research ethics—inform the students about the way their data is being used,” she notes. While that particular red flag feature is no longer used by Canvas, Mariachi says she worries that colleges and companies are experimenting with learning analytics in ways that are not transparent and could be prone to algorithmic bias.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. Video Observation for Teacher PD. The Boom of Real and Virtual Creation. By Kathy Schrock, Wilkes University.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

MindShift

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Or the information is kept in silos and used for alumni fundraising, marketing or for preparing reports for the board of directors. The information rarely has anything to do with helping improve student learning in real time. It is, in effect, academic autopsy data. Yep, more annoying ed-tech buzzwords. Both are from Civitas.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Ben Williamson on “Learning from psychographic personality profiling.” ” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “$1.1

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The word “intelligence” is also used, of course, to describe the gathering and assessment of tactical information – information, often confidential information, with political or military value. I’m concerned because students are compelled to use software in educational settings.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Now is the time for schools to establish communication processes, frequency, and consistency— while parents are still very comfortable with increased engagement and information. When schools were forced to pivot to virtual learning, that also meant finding a way to manage day-to-day operations that didn’t rely on being in person.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 120

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

" Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. Government Websites | ITIF → The public relies on federal websites to access information and services from the U.S. That’s more than 2,000 people.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Via Politico : “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Wednesday that the Education Department is stonewalling its attempts to gather information about Navient as part of the CFPB’s lawsuit against the student loan giant.” The university gave false information to U.S. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. And “free” doesn’t last. Without revenue the company will go away.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software. million students.

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