IAD Learning

JULY 26, 2017

15 Strategies You Can Follow Today to Successfully Deploy Your Learning Analytics Tool. Deploying a learning analytics tool in your organization brings many benefits, including improving your students’ engagement and their success rates. Lead the project from the learning innovation side, not from IT.

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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. So this is a talk about pedometers.

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Learning Analytics Data Learning Analysis 77

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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

Digital Badges 115

Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 115

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2017

To whatever extent an educational technology is considered neutral, there are better and worse ways of putting it into practice. Embedded learning analytics are not like rotisserie ovens: you can’t set them and forget them. Here, researchers are considering how to use data to reflect on teaching and learning practices.

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Data Learning Analytics LMS Secondary 144

EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

Martin McKay is the Chief Technology officer and one of the founders of Texthelp Inc. He directs all research and development at Texthelp with a focus on developing new technologies to assist people who struggle with reading and writing. What do you think the year ahead has in store in terms of Educational Technology?

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Trends Technology Learning Analytics Robotics 100

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology. Secondary trends, found in only a few of the reviewed resources, included: blended learning, dashboards and learning analytics, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.

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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. How does that work?

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Learning Analytics Education Data Online Learning 167

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

But easy to forget is that technology is not in itself a solution. million hours of technology usage by 390,000 students across 48 U.S. million hours of technology usage by 390,000 students across 48 U.S. With thousands of education apps available today, it can seem like students' success is in the palm of their hands.

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Outcomes Learning Analytics Data Analysis 167

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

They use games, web tracking and machine learning systems to capture and process more and more student data, then convert qualitative inputs into quantitative outcomes. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I Sometimes an admissions process can be extremely subjective. It’s somewhat comical.”

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Data Learning Analytics Company Assessment 216

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

One of the key things about the report is that we are asked to suggest what technologies we think will be highly influential in education in the far, medium and near terms. In some of the discourses surrounding these technologies, there tends to be a reduction of what a teacher’s role is. Misunderstanding of Teacher Roles.

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Technology EdTech Learning Analytics Adaptive Learning 81

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. I’m more hopeful that meaningful adoption of online learning can occur in traditional higher/tertiary education providers that are not universities. MOOC providers will keep on refining them.

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It notes that ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funding has provided school districts with opportunities to leverage new educational approaches and technologies and that “these innovations serve as the catalysts for rejuvenation, charting a course toward the restoration of educational excellence.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

“If you want to be data-driven in any meaningful way, your ability to do that is going to depend largely on the quality of the data you’re working with,” says Etienne Pelaprat, chief technology officer at Unizin. Handing Over Datasets The first hurdle has been convincing tech companies to share the data at all. Numbers speak.

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Data LMS Learning Analytics Classroom 119

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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BYOD Pearson Data Learning Analytics 166

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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Learning Analytics Guidelines Conference Groups 167

EdTech4Beginners

MAY 10, 2018

Over the past few decades, schools have relied on computer technology for delivering educational content or equipping students with resources to enhance their learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It notes that ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funding has provided school districts with opportunities to leverage new educational approaches and technologies and that “these innovations serve as the catalysts for rejuvenation, charting a course toward the restoration of educational excellence.

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Blended Learning Digital Divide Classroom Flipped Classroom 103

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

But many of those folks utterly misunderstood Prince’s relationship to technologies – much like many, I’d argue, misconstrue what the Luddites in the early nineteenth century were actually so angry about when they took to smashing looms. And thus Prince was viewed by some as a Luddite. It was never about the loom per se.

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Technology Education VLE Industry 73

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

Education technology researcher George Siemens and a colleague hope that personalized learning approaches can help better connect professors and students in large classes. Pardo piloted OnTask in March 2017 at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Vancouver. “We

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Jupiter iO.

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Edmodo LMS Digital Citizenship Assessment 150

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As we gather here today to raise funds for Ian, a learning technology specialist at UBC, we have to recognize, no doubt, how much surveillance and ed-tech affects teachers and staff as well. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.).

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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. Beyond the technological hurdles, there are psychological ones too.

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How To Student Engagement Comparison Learning Analytics 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

The director of EDUCAUSE ELI describes six major trends (he calls them “trajectories”) for technology and education. Malcolm Brown begins with three major drivers: personalization, hybrid learning, and big data. It’s a very impressive article, packing a lot of insight into a short space. Read what follows carefully.

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Technology LMS OER Learning Analytics 40

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

She’s just made the jump from provost to a senior academic innovation fellow, tasked with looking to big new ideas in learning and experimental efforts in both teaching and student success. Let me give you an example. That could connect me through to talk to a live person as I’m making dinner, for example. Privacy is one.

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OER Course Learning Analytics Company 119

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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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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MOOC Coursera Data Policies 112

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? 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. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

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. So, what are some examples of college teaching that have really stood out?

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Social Media Course Examples Learning Analytics 117

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

However, the newest level of AI comes with some advances that should give us pause, especially when we consider our most vulnerable users being exposed to this technology, our students. When you think about AI, you may not realize that it is a part of almost every piece of technology that you use. Of course, AI is not new to our world.

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Robotics Learning Analytics Technology Policies 100

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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Groups Learning Analytics Assessment Robotics 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. If we can accept that the world is complex, that education is complex, why are so many of our technologies about compliance?”

Learning Analytics 60

Learning Analytics MOOC E-rate Trends 60

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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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. About the Presenters.

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Mobile Learning EdTech Company Data 93