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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

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With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. ISTE, EdSurge’s parent organization, helped design the survey questions.)

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Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘On Task’

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Education technology researcher George Siemens and a colleague hope that personalized learning approaches can help better connect professors and students in large classes. Pardo piloted OnTask in March 2017 at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Vancouver. “We

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

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That’s one reason colleges haven’t exactly embraced adaptive learning technology, says Casey Green, director of The Campus Computing Project, an annual survey about the use of technology in higher education. “A Others said they appreciated the nudges from the software to study in small chunks. A Word of Caution.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

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The online literacy platform is offering not only new materials based on thousands of student surveys, but also the option for students to customize the content they can read. Upgrades also include Smarty Ants Español, a program designed to help K-2 Spanish-speaking students learn how to read in Spanish.

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Using Data to Support Personalized Learning Pathways

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Next, they surveyed the educators. Eric has done numerous presentations throughout his region, as well as at ISTE, on the topics of educational efficacy, data, privacy, and the role of technology in learning. He spent most of his career as CIO/CTO with the Sharon and Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts. About the Moderator.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

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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. That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. Just like an amusement park!

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

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Duke University ran a widely read lecture capture survey. 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. Conferences ran streaming video events. And it has.

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