Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Each article will contain five “power words”—high-utility academic vocabulary—which students can click on to get a “student-friendly, article-friendly” definition, with a 10-question quiz at the end of the article. So the company plans to release three new articles a week aimed specifically at elementary students. READ WHAT YOU LIKE: Fashion.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It’s definitely reduced the workload around here. We're looking at artificial machine learning analytics around security and digging deeper into ClassLink’s reporting features. That’s huge for us as a bring your own device environment. How has SSO impacted your IT department?

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learn analytically. Much like how there are multiple pathways to solving a problem in our studio learning model, we think students should have multiple routes to university and toward career opportunities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Simmons: In my experience, students definitely take those really seriously, because it is the one institutional way that we can give our thoughts that is really validated by the school in its own process. There was also a great deal of learning analytics attached to it. I think you really capture the extremes there.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. Wikipedia has a lot of mathematics definitions.” Yes, even kindergarteners are using apps at school.)

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techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With this knowledge, administrators can leverage their data to make smart decisions about using the apps that will best improve learning. Baker, Director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, studied 1.4M Dr. Ryan S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In 2011, when the report focused only on important developments, learning analytics were predicted to peak in about five years. Just as often, trends like game-based learning, which can seem like the future of learning at times, get dropped when they lose momentum and go niche for a few years.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? It is important to ask, argues Deborah West, director of the Office of Learning and Teaching for Charles Darwin University, in Australia, because professors are often left out of planning for so-called “learning analytics.”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. An interactive STEM curriculum comprises of learning modules which test a student’s critical thinking skills. The current lack of rightfully skilled individuals for STEM jobs will definitely create a higher market for STEM related jobs in the coming future.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

loves the learning analytics available from Think Through Math program. “We Teachers were trained on how to use these analytics to set goals, pull out small groups based on need and accelerate learning.” “Students use the app in advisory class, and we check it out weekly to see any patterns trends,” she says.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. I’m sure we will.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2016

On the other hand, they need to avoid the tendency to measure everything to death, seeking definitive truth in the data detail and bogging the project and the team down with mind-numbing analysis. When Change Is the New Normal.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Data collected in an educational setting -- by definition -- is data collected on people in the midst of enormous development, questioning, and growth. If people are doing adolescence right, they are making mistakes, asking questions, and breaking things, all in the name of growth and learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

I think the hype is definitely over. I think we are entering a phase of many different technologies becoming more sophisticated and more integrated into education eg mobile learning, social media, learning analytics. So, it''s a mixed picture. Will the bubble burst, or will this momentum be sustained?

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. I’m sure we will.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” “How Should Colleges Approach Student Success When Different Definitions Abound?” ” “10 definitions of datafication (in education)” by Ben Williamson. Apple is holding an education-themed press event next week and The Verge tells readers “What to expect from Apple’s education event.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

Colleges and universities are doubling down on learning analytics. They’re trying to figure out how to better use the rich data they’re increasingly capturing about their students and how to improve our collective understanding of the impact of analytics on teaching and learning. McKay is the Arthur F.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Or “personalized learning” can mean that students have a say in what they learn – students determine topics they study and activities they undertake. They just use different words, of course: “outcomes-based learning,” “learning analytics.”).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

” And again, let’s recall Franklin’s definition of technologies includes not just hardware or software, but ideas, practices, models, and systems. But we’ve long used machines to measure and assess “intelligence” and to monitor and surveil for the sake of “intelligence.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.

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