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Biometric Tech Can Track How Well Students Are Paying Attention

EdTech Magazine

Well, there’s an app for that, and it’s gaining traction among educators. 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 also work in K–12 classrooms. Engagement.

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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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Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘On Task’

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There’s an old joke that the original form of distance education is sitting in the back of a large lecture course. Education technology researcher George Siemens and a colleague hope that personalized learning approaches can help better connect professors and students in large classes.

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Top 5 LMS benefits for HE students

Neo LMS

Learning Management Systems were probably created for institutions of Higher Education. Colleges and universities were among the first to reach a number of students so high, they simply needed the power of a software in order to manage all the learning and other data points that came along each student. All in all.

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3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school

The Hechinger Report

classrooms but a study finds that students aren’t using much of the pricey software that schools buy (Photo by Jackie Mader). Higher test scores could be caused by things other than the online software like great teaching. They had enough test score data to analyze roughly 150 of the 2,500 education apps in the marketplace.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. Join us to take a look at AWS Educate's evolution and hear about what is next. But I am sort of all-in on analytics as a concept.

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Researchers Raise Concerns About Algorithmic Bias in Online Course Tools

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For instance, the popular LMS Canvas had a feature that red-flagged students who turned in late work, suggesting on a dashboard shown to professors that such students were less likely to do well in the class, says Roxana Marachi, an associate professor of education at San Jose State University. Should we have guardrails? Absolutely.”

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