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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

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From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. 3D Printing.

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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. Previous projects similar to what Carnegie Mellon is attempting have struggled to take off.

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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

Date : Thursday, September 6th, 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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Assigning Homework In the Digital Age: The Benefits of Virtual Classrooms

EdTech4Beginners

Education technology platforms like Study.com use Virtual Classrooms to seamlessly integrate teacher feedback, dynamic learning, analytics, and personalization when assigning homework. Assignments from virtual classrooms can also be shared on other learning management systems like Google Classrooms, Blackboard, and Schoology.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

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I should say that all this is to do with their old learning management system at UBC, which was Blackboard Connect. It might have greater capabilities in terms of learning analytics, but based on what I learned with Connect, I ultimately decided not to opt into using Canvas, and at this point I was a graduate student at UBC.

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

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Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.” He made the remarks during a session this week at the annual conference of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, where he announced the project. We still have tribes,” he said.

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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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