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How Are New AI Tools Changing ‘Learning Analytics’?

Edsurge

For years educators have been trying to glean lessons about learners and the learning process from the data traces that students leave with every click in a digital textbook , learning management system or other online learning tool. Its an approach known as learning analytics.

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Learning Analytics Goes to School

Digital Promise

How can researchers, practitioners, and technology developers best use the wealth of data generated by the increasing use of technology in schools? Learning Analytics Goes to School offers an account of the supporting conditions and key phases involved in what we refer to as collaborative data-intensive improvement.

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Biometric Tech Can Track How Well Students Are Paying Attention

EdTech Magazine

Biometrics — technology that captures physical and behavioral data — is being used by several universities to collect data on students’ attention. Artificial intelligence software analyzes this data and alerts students when their interest starts to fade; it also creates custom quizzes based on students’ attentiveness.

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Personalized Learning, Teachers Unleashed, and a Learning Analytics Partnership: The Story of Fresno Unified

Edsurge

And that change has allowed Ryan’s learning and, more importantly, his mindset about learning, to thrive. His experience is not unique: over 17,000 students in Fresno were involved in the PLI last year, and the data clearly shows that most of those students made statistically significant gains.

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Free Conference! Design and Delivery in a Blended Learning Jungle

The CoolCatTeacher

Kasey Bell will cover this as one of the five characteristics of the Dynamic Learning Framework. Data and Writing Transformation. Joni Degner and Mark Schwartz will show how to use data to improve writing. Wednesday, August 19 – STEM Transitioning to remote and blended learning with STEM.

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7 Must-Have Features for Online Learning Platforms

EdTech4Beginners

Learning Analytics. Learning analytics is a powerful tool that provides detailed information about one’s learning style. It collects data on the time students spent on the platform, user satisfaction as well as progress and preferences.

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?Invasive or Informative? Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics

Edsurge

Professors can easily integrate the platform into an LMS, allow students to engage with one another and course material online, and faculty see data on how student are learning. So in 2016, after discovering that student data was being sold, the university (among others) decided it was time for things to change.