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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

According to psychology experts at the BestEssayTips agency, the point is to make the learning process more exciting through healthy competition: “When students have a quantifiable objective in front of them, they are more willing to give their best and outperform other colleagues. Robot teachers. Online learning.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. And yet, a robot invasion is the very premise for a game that aims to teach utilities employees those standards and why they’re important. Companies are looking at digital learning and saying.

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Why Convenience Boosts Student Campus Life

Edsurge

That’s why nearly two years ago, Arizona State University launched a mobile app, an online one-stop-shop, helping students maneuver on-campus services and decisively providing robust student engagement. Convenience and compassion on a mobile phone. A food delivering KiwiBot at UC Berkeley.

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

Edsurge

In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.

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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

The Google-owned service is widely used that it may already soak up more than a third of all mobile traffic. Unsurprisingly, we increasingly learn from digital video. The realm of informal learning is well represented on YouTube—from DIY instruction to guerrilla recordings of public speakers.

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4 ways forward-thinking districts are inspiring more students to code

eSchool News

Mineola Union Free School District empowers students to work independently and pace themselves to master coding languages through its partnership with online learning platform KidOYO. a mobile makerspace project that aims to inspire creativity and build problem-solving skills for its students.

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Announcing the Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO. Her research interests include online instructional design, discovery and digital literacy.