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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. Data Analytics. 3D Printing.

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

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

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That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. Learn more here. And what he found—that is, once he got a hold of it—left him feeling pretty uneasy.

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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. Assignments from virtual classrooms can also be shared on other learning management systems like Google Classrooms, Blackboard, and Schoology.

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

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

When it comes to learning data science, that’s easy for me, because I had no actual expertise to begin with when I started learning the subject in earnest this past summer. This is the first in a series of articles which are about that project, but which are also about how I learned how to learn data science.

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