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Biometric Tech Can Track How Well Students Are Paying Attention

EdTech Magazine

For example, for its remote learning classes, the Paris School of Business is using software called Nestor to track students’ eye movement and facial expressions through their laptop webcams. Biometrics could be very useful to determine engagement and emotion,” says Baker.

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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. But Kenneth R.

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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

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With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. What accounts for the low reported usage of other edtech software? “My

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

2021 brought with it new COVID-19 variants, the dreaded school COVID quarantine, and renewed calls to support the nation’s educators, who have worked tirelessly (and constantly) to support students’ learning, social and emotional needs, and more. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Not everyone thinks that’s possible, of course, and even Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, admits that edtech can spark plenty of new ethical challenges along the way. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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Against the 3A’s of EdTech: AI, Analytics, and Adaptive Technologies in Education

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I have struggled in the past to explain my views on this to a subset of computer scientists I know (my past professors and others in edtech) who don’t normally think critically about education, and perhaps the ones who do think critically about education can give me feedback on how to make this clearer. Some Critical Questions.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

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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. Kids can do homework through the app and use it any place, on the go,” Harrell explains.