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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. Teachers can use Study.com’s virtual classrooms to create and grade homework assignments using Study.com’s vast library of content.

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Learning to learn data science, part 1: Beginner’s mind

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

Barnes & Noble Education Buys LoudCloud Systems: The college bookstore operator and provider of digital education services has acquired LoudCloud Systems, a digital platform and analytics provider to clients in higher education, the for-profit sector, and the K-12 community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). I mean, one of its founders celebrated.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

That job was with the Digital Tattoo Project , which is run out of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at the UBC Library. And one thing that we began to look into was how does the learning management system at UBC collect information about students and how is that information then used and stored and accessed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. The ALA has released library privacy guidelines for students in K–12 schools. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. .” “ Moore’s Law Is Dead.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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