Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. But I am sort of all-in on analytics as a concept.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

teachers were stressed out about logging in to the point where some would just give up on using technology and go back to their regular pen and paper process. In his 16 years of working in IT, Tam Nguyen has grown uncomfortably familiar with these types of calls and the resulting reluctance of teachers to adopt new technologies.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

It doesn’t matter because the changes to higher education are happening because of economics, demographics and, most of all, technology. There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. 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

AUGUST 7, 2018

In July, three members from EdSurge Independent, a student-run group that meets weekly to discuss ideas around higher education and technology, joined EdSurge Live to share what they wish faculty knew about students today, and propose ways to fuse instructional gaps. There was also a great deal of learning analytics attached to it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Sandwiched between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, this full-time innovation school for middle and high school students based in Cambridge, Mass., They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learn analytically.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. It’s designed for homework but BrightBytes’s technology for monitoring use primary captured activity at schools.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As the costs for devices and applications decrease, technology use is increasing In classrooms across the country. With this knowledge, administrators can leverage their data to make smart decisions about using the apps that will best improve learning. Growth is particularly high in web-based devices. Dr. Ryan S.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Our world revolves around science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Related: 8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact | 2019. Allows Students to Keep Up with Technology. What is STEM?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The full stack of technologies and frivolous thrills one might expect to find on today’s college campuses were on full display at Educause, the. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning.

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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 25, 2016

Stacey Roshan, Math Teacher and Upper School Technology Coordinator at The Bullis School The Best Data Tools for the Job Depending on the task at hand, teachers turn to a variety of tools that offer data on how their students are learning. loves the learning analytics available from Think Through Math program. “We

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

It doesn’t matter because the changes to higher education are happening because of economics, demographics and, most of all, technology. There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

1) You’re currently professor of educational technology at the British Open University. My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). I think the hype is definitely over.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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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. So, each institution has to decide what learning model will lie at its heart, and what pedagogical and andragogical values it will promote.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Campus Technology : “Recipients of 2018 McGraw Prize in Education Revealed.” Because technology imperialism. “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? Her remarks.) .”

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

I want us to think about the ways in which the history of learning – how we tell that story – shapes the future of learning, and how the history of technology (education technology and otherwise) – and how we tell that story – shapes the future of technology. They’re not meant to.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or rather I’ve never believed the hype that we should put all our faith in, rest all our hope on technology. I’ve had a sinking feeling in my stomach about the future of education technology long before Americans – 26% of them, at least – selected Donald Trump as our next President.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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