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Education Technology Trends for 2017: An Interview With Martin McKay.

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Another example of this is smartphones. Pupils can use a $5 Google Cardboard, put their own smartphone in there and their teacher can take them to the Moon or Mars, or to an art exhibition in Paris. Will Learning analytics have a major impact upon Education this year? Learning analytics and big data are huge.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere.

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10 Steps to Create Interactive K12 Learning Modules

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Ensure Mobile Compatibility With educational content being available to students 24*7, it goes without saying that your learning module must be mobile compatible. It should adapt to any screen it is being viewed on, be it a smartphone, tablet or laptop.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

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Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. The effects of these updates might be insignificant to our ignorant eyes, but it makes a significant difference in the performance of the smartphone. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. Improves Critical Thinking Skills.

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Florida Virtual School mirgrates to Brightspace

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The new Brightspace Daylight experience is built from the ground up to work on any device and be fully accessible so students and teachers can use smartphones, tablets or any browser-enabled device.

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How a Parody Twitter Account Helps Decode the Hulking Educause Conference (And What to Expect This Year)

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ANY PUNY HUMAN SMARTPHONE ONLY! Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want? “We don’t even know what our computing devices are going to look like,” he said. Or as Educause Hulk put it: EDUCAUSE HULK #EDU16 QUESTION! WHAT DEVICE PUNY HUMAN BRING TO ANAHEIM! NOT TRENDY ANYMORE!

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

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The new Brightspace Daylight experience is built from the ground up to work on any device and be fully accessible so students and teachers can use smartphones, tablets or any browser-enabled device. This August, Subaru of America, Inc.

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