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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. So this is a talk about pedometers.

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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. Bruce Dahlgren CEO of Anthology Recently, EdSurge spoke with Bruce Dahlgren about the power of AI in higher education.

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3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school

The Hechinger Report

classrooms but a study finds that students aren’t using much of the pricey software that schools buy (Photo by Jackie Mader). Higher test scores could be caused by things other than the online software like great teaching. Most software is drastically underused by schools. Apps are increasingly common in U.S.

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What Is ‘eBook Analytics’ and How Does It Benefit Higher Education Publishers?

Kitaboo on EdTech

For example, analytics can help publishers identify each learner’s preferred learning modality, such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. They can then create content specifically designed to cater to this, leading to better engagement and improved learning outcomes.

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The Benefits Of Using Technology In Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Challenges Of Using Technology In Learning. In remote education, students are more responsible for the outcome of their learning. Online students face a huge number of distractions from their learning. Including hardware, software, training, professional development for teachers , and more.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Most concerning are decisions that have a negative impact on student outcomes (whether academic or social) or in more extreme circumstances even jeopardize the health and well-being of children and youth. More tangible costs result from ill-considered decisions that can result in the waste, fraud and abuse of public funds.

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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses. Learn more about this process in this accompanying blog post.). Lumen instruments OER for measurement at the individual learning outcome level.

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