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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher

As always, education is changing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year. Video-assisted Learning.

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

Edsurge

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. It’s an invitation to the educators of the world for us all to solve big problems together."

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Thursday - Angie McAllister on How Academic Networking and Learning Analytics Can Help "Learning How to Learn"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Thursday, September 6th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Angie McAllister, the Director of Data Innovation at Apollo Group, where she specializes in building adaptive learning systems for adult learners. Recordings : The full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?

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Assigning Homework In the Digital Age: The Benefits of Virtual Classrooms

EdTech4Beginners

Over the past few decades, schools have relied on computer technology for delivering educational content or equipping students with resources to enhance their learning. Incorporating these tools helps educators keep their students engaged in a time when online media is a huge part of many students’ lives.

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New Higher-Ed ‘Matchmaking’ Event Aims to Bridge Education Technology Silos

Edsurge

But they argue that their new effort, called the Empirical Educator Project, will serve a convening and support role not done by those other groups or foundations. Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.” We still have tribes,” he said.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

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The Digital Tattoo Project started initially for the teacher candidates at the UCB Education Department. Learn more here. The promise of these tools is that they might allow instructors to see data to better evaluate how students are learning. They’ve recently switched to a new one called Canvas by Instructure.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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