Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. This grants schools more insight into their learning behavior, which then helps teachers come up with more effective curriculums in the future. 3D Printing.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2017

These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. Assumptions about bodies, for example.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Let’s discuss these components one by one.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This is where data-based learning analytics can be leveraged. Enterprises have been utilizing data based learning analytics for a long time to make smart business decisions and increase their profitability. Plus, today we’ve got efficient learning analytics tools to collect and process the data with accuracy.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board defines Analytics & Adaptive Technologies as: these are digital technologies that collect and use data related to teaching and learning. For example, Analytics & Adaptive Technologies or Personalization? Personalized or Individualized Learning?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The solution for this is learning analytics. . To this end, let’s explore learning analytics and how it can boost student success in this blog. What is Learning Analytics? Learning analytics collects all the relevant information about students, revealing their strong and weak zones.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2017

Embedded learning analytics are not like rotisserie ovens: you can’t set them and forget them. An interest in respecting student agency is an important component of the academic field of learning analytics. Here, researchers are considering how to use data to reflect on teaching and learning practices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Your most recent episode was about learning analytics , and listening to it reminded me that the focus of edtech folks these days is less about the tools being used and more about finding ways to improve student retention and learning. That means seeing analytics as a [supplement] to the human connection.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. In particular, she feels that “we have a very micro perspective, and we need to have a more macro perspective about how institutions work.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

School leaders expect students and teachers to be using their licensed apps all the time, says Ryan Baker, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Learning Analytics. For example, the math and science app ALEKS led to higher performance in a school located in a mid-sized city in the Midwest, but not in smaller towns.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Here’s one example of research at Duke that already used the IRB template: a professor got approval to collect data about the effectiveness of a tool developed at Duke called Nudge. An IRB approval that used to take two months now takes seven to ten days. Can sharing projects and practices possibly do that?

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

One example of this in education would be instead of having a $3000 interactive whiteboard, a teacher can plug a $30 chromecast into a projector and everyone in the classroom can collaborate on an assignment. Another example of this is smartphones. Will Learning analytics have a major impact upon Education this year?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

And many colleges employ the comprehensive services of enrollment management firms, whose machine learning tools try to detect patterns in historical student data, then use those patterns to identify prospective new students who might help colleges meet goals like improving graduation rates, diversifying campus or moving up in rankings lists.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The 2020s will likely be a defining decade for education as schools and policymakers rethink their approaches to education,” said Avantis Education’s Chief Executive Officer, Huw Williams.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Pelaprat argues that colleges are simply in the early stages of learning what can be done with learning analytics, and that one goal of the data platform is to enable research and experimentation. If the system works, it could allow colleges to do experiments that span campuses that were not possible before. “A

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The 2020s will likely be a defining decade for education as schools and policymakers rethink their approaches to education,” said Avantis Education’s Chief Executive Officer, Huw Williams.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 10, 2018

Education technology platforms like Study.com use Virtual Classrooms to seamlessly integrate teacher feedback, dynamic learning, analytics, and personalization when assigning homework. Incorporating these tools helps educators keep their students engaged in a time when online media is a huge part of many students’ lives.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

Pardo piloted OnTask in March 2017 at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Vancouver. “We For example, if a student misses several classes, gets a low score on an assessment or doesn’t complete the week’s reading, he or she gets a message through OnTask with targeted advice for getting back on track.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. Example of the talk meter shown to tutors every 20 minutes during the tutoring session. Source: Figure 2 of Demszky et. In between, it’s yellow.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

For example, math teachers were almost as likely to devote most or all of the hour of class time to group discussions as English teachers were: 35 percent compared to 41 percent. “I think that is contradictory to what some people would expect and believe.” Lectures were one of the least common uses of time in both subjects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In Massachusetts, for example, family and community engagement is one of four standards within its teacher-evaluation rubric. Jupiter iO is an all-in-one cloud-based gradebook, LMS, SIS (Student Information System), and Learning Analytics solution. It meant parents showing they cared about their child’s success.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

We're looking at artificial machine learning analytics around security and digging deeper into ClassLink’s reporting features. For example, you might want to provide Google Classroom to all students, while an English Learner application might only apply to a small group of students. How has SSO impacted your IT department?

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, supplementing a classroom instructor with an instructional designer, a researcher, and a pair of graduate students may allow incredible things to happen in that classroom, dramatically increasing the success of the students in the class. There is nothing OER-specific about S3.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

For example, colleges will be governed by the rule when a faculty member working in the E.U. is interacting with a college’s learning management system, or when a prospective student in Europe applies for admission to a U.S. MOOC-provider Coursera, for example, claims to have 6.5 institution. million in Europe.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long. For a discussion on decolonizing learning analytics, check out this blogpost by Paul Prinsloo, and then do a Scholar search on his publications on the topic of ethics in learning analytics.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

While this is an imperfect process and often treated as a necessary evil, there are myriad examples where this public review process has helped to identify and remediate errors of fact and bias. There is every reason to be optimistic about the future of public education in a digital age.

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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. For example, students who visited Varsity Tutors more frequently had higher reading scores.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. But Bridges noted that dealing with analytics is not in every professor’s wheelhouse. “If

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. “I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Must have 7 resources.” And it’s what the Santa Clara, Calif.-based based company wants to thwart.

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IAD Learning

JANUARY 31, 2017

Understanding how far an educational institution has gone on the implementation of learning analytics, may be achieved by using an “analytics maturity model” There several models available. Garner describes his analytics maturity model by multiple dimensions: Time perspective covered: past, present or future.

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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. On the Kelvinside campus in Glasgow’s leafy West End, students from middle and high school explored swarm robotics, created biofashion and programmed augmented reality games. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

Shifting gears a little bit, I hear your role is changing at UMUC, and that you’re taking on a new job where you’ll be looking at next-generation ideas like AI and learning analytics. Let me give you an example. That could connect me through to talk to a live person as I’m making dinner, for example.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For example, if Texas gets 10% of Title I dollars, it will get 10% of available ESSER dollars. NetRef, for example, produces ROI reports for analysis of monies spent and what that looks like in terms of product usage (actual effective cost per user, for example) and learning value.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

And he’s seen “a laundry list” of promising examples over the last few years. MAKING THE DATA ENGINE WORK: Unlike spiking interest in MOOCs or even competency-based models, interest in institutional and learning analytics has maintained a “slow and steady burn,” said Tyton Partners’ Adam Newman.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

I see for example some professors doing an informal course evaluation midway of the semester. So, what are some examples of college teaching that have really stood out? There was also a great deal of learning analytics attached to it. We talk about digital natives, for example. Simmons: Sure.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In the case of Waymaker Microeconomics, for example, that means aligning over 2,350 individual assessment items appearing in pre-tests, interactive practice opportunities, self-checks, and end of module quizzes with the appropriate learning outcome. Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 23, 2023

These analytics can provide publishers with a range of data, including the following: Number of pages read Time spent on each page Most highlighted passages Most searched terms Performance on assessments User engagement This data can be used to identify patterns in learner behavior and adapt content to suit their needs better.

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