Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

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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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

One of the key things about the report is that we are asked to suggest what technologies we think will be highly influential in education in the far, medium and near terms. In some of the discourses surrounding these technologies, there tends to be a reduction of what a teacher’s role is. Misunderstanding of Teacher Roles.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. In the previous posts on this topic our examination found that technology can and does help when it comes to improving completion rates , reducing tuition costs and helping universities to bridge the revenue gap.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

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. Having the technology necessary to access online learning opportunities isn’t enough.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Learning Management Systems were probably created for institutions of Higher Education. Colleges and universities were among the first to reach a number of students so high, they simply needed the power of a software in order to manage all the learning and other data points that came along each student.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. But I am sort of all-in on analytics as a concept. How does that work?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

“If you want to be data-driven in any meaningful way, your ability to do that is going to depend largely on the quality of the data you’re working with,” says Etienne Pelaprat, chief technology officer at Unizin. Handing Over Datasets The first hurdle has been convincing tech companies to share the data at all. Numbers speak.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 23, 2023

As a higher education publisher, it’s important to keep up with the latest trends and technologies to improve the learning experience for students. One technology that helps with this is eBook analytics. In this article, we will explore analytics and how they benefit higher education publishers, in-depth.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? 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.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

It doesn’t matter because the changes to higher education are happening because of economics, demographics and, most of all, technology. In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

During an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate , Eric Butash, Director of Education Technology and Data Integration for the district, discussed how they used data analytics to build their personalized student learning pathways. More important—how do they make sure students are succeeding with this new plan?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

The companies building courseware products are developing increasingly complex algorithms that track students’ progress and recommend next steps in their learning paths. While Anbar admits the online shift changed his role from a lecturer to more of a coach, he’s adamant that he—not technology—maintains ownership over the class.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

This is especially the case when it comes to education technology and curricular innovation. Worrying over questions about culture, data and technology could easily constrain our thinking from the start. 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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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. Kids can do homework through the app and use it any place, on the go,” Harrell explains.

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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? How Good is our Return on Learning for Classroom Apps?

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

In addition, there is also logistical data ranging from attendance, whether online or on site, to hardware and software use, school bus routes, lunches, and much more. Throughout her career, Monica has been an evangelist for the adoption of technology as a transformative educational tool.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The full stack of technologies and frivolous thrills one might expect to find on today’s college campuses were on full display at Educause, the. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

Dallas-based LoudCloud’s platforms include a competency-based courseware platform, a learning-analytics platform and services, an eReading product, and a learning management system. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Traveling to many schools, engaging with teachers, students and principals, we have seen first-hand the successful (and unsuccessful) introduction of a wide range of technologies. But there are still a number of limitations to the effective use of these technologies at the primary level. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Collaborative software provider ClassFlow announced a way for teachers to earn extra cash during the upcoming school year.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Raymond Spiteri, as they outline their research looking at building math skills and greatly improving learning outcomes in the math classroom, discuss the best use of technology in the BYOD (bring your own device) math classroom, and demonstrate the use of Mathtoons Media tools. There is no cost for this Webinar.

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Classroom BYOD Learning Analytics Mobility 28

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

It doesn’t matter because the changes to higher education are happening because of economics, demographics and, most of all, technology. In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way.

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Mistakengoal.com

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Here are some of the blogs that I follow that regularly impress me: e-Literate : Led by Michael Feldstein , this group of authors routinely post insightful and detailed information about technology and U.S. Some of their posts are a little bit hyperbolic and occasionally shrill (presumably to attract more readers), particularly this post.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. The company told Marketplace K-12 last year that it has partnerships with businesses that will use or already implementing its technology in 20 countreies.

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EmergingEdTech

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Adaptive Platform Delivers Reading Materials at 5 Different Reading Levels, With Built in Assessments How would you like to be able to give students reading assignments focused on current events that. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

Technology 40

Technology Education Assessment Common Core 40

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

But even he realized that we can’t expect individual faculty to stay at the cutting edges of their discipline, teaching and learning practice, educational research, and the ever-changing technologies that can be used in the service of learning.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

But many of those folks utterly misunderstood Prince’s relationship to technologies – much like many, I’d argue, misconstrue what the Luddites in the early nineteenth century were actually so angry about when they took to smashing looms. And thus Prince was viewed by some as a Luddite. It was never about the loom per se.

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Technology Education VLE Industry 72

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. These have made the creation of eBooks very easy. Using a cloud-based platform, digital books can be easily upgraded.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. What is personalized learning? That’s where technology comes in.

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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. These have made the creation of eBooks very easy. Using a cloud-based platform, digital books can be easily upgraded.

eBook 52

eBook Learning Analytics Software Accessibility 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

Trends 40

Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Then, he toggled the cardboard lever and declared open a new website , one that gave away software that took more than $100 million in grant funding to develop. It was an unusually theatrical moment for a gathering to announce the release of software tools to help professors improve their teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2020

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. As to the concern about LMS and other tools leading to institutional racism? Absolutely.”

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