Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning. However, that permission gives you no insight into what needs to be improved. As you might imagine, this process can be incredibly time-consuming.

OER 94

OER Learning Analytics Analysis Course 94

EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

This is already happening a lot in the US and Canada but we’ll see a move towards this throughout the rest of the markets Texthelp operate in as well, where people will move to outsourced storage, provisioning by Google and so on. They can hop on a Google Hangout and work on joint projects with students around the world.

Trends 100

Trends Technology Learning Analytics Robotics 100

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Jupiter iO is an all-in-one cloud-based gradebook, LMS, SIS (Student Information System), and Learning Analytics solution. Google Calendar (part of GAFE and Google Classroom). The fact that it’s free makes it a no-brainer educational tool to keep parents involved in their child’s education. Jupiter iO.

Edmodo 150

Edmodo LMS Digital Citizenship Assessment 150

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. Assignments from virtual classrooms can also be shared on other learning management systems like Google Classrooms, Blackboard, and Schoology.

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Classroom Schoology Blackboard Learning Analytics 138

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And that is a very conservative number, based only on time saved using the top six critical core web applications from Pearson, McGraw-Hill, PowerSchool, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Google Classroom. We're looking at artificial machine learning analytics around security and digging deeper into ClassLink’s reporting features.

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BYOD Pearson Data Learning Analytics 166

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long.

Technology 81

Technology EdTech Learning Analytics Adaptive Learning 81

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. I should say that all this is to do with their old learning management system at UBC, which was Blackboard Connect. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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Data Learning Advocacy System 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This partnership expands its ability to support more schools and districts nationwide, increasing delivery of personalized learning and supporting equitable achievement for all students. Each of these elements will be combined with EdisonLearning’s industry-leading online courses to enhance value to students through the new partnership.

Learning Analytics 60

Learning Analytics LMS Schoology Learning 60

Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

From the report comes an explanation of learner analytics: Learner analytics loosely joins a variety of data gathering tools and analytic techniques to study student engagement, performance, and progress in practice, with the goal of what is learned to revise curricula, assessment and teaching in real time.

Learning Analytics 55

Learning Analytics Data Mobility Report 55

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

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. We’re only at the tip of the iceberg with learning analytics.

Learning Analytics 60

Learning Analytics MOOC E-rate Trends 60

edWeb.net

JUNE 15, 2021

As a part of his active involvement within the educational technology community, Ken is an Apple Distinguished Educator, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, and a Google Certified Innovator.

Learning 80

Learning Learning Analytics EdTech Microsoft 80

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. You might call it Google Home or Amazon Echo, you know, a couple of these. Let me give you an example. Very quickly, actually.

OER 120

OER Course Learning Analytics Company 120

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. Among the top one were Varsity Tutors, LearnZillion, Wikipedia, Brainingcamp, Google Classroom and TED-Ed.

Software 110

Software Data Education Company 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2016

So we decided to track down this heroic jokester for a more in-depth interview with the IT official (who we’ll keep anonymous, though you could track him down with a bit of Googling). Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want? Sugata Mitra: The Future of Learning (Keynote).

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Conference Twitter MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve worried whether Google is making us stupid and we’ve often worried if Facebook is demeaning the value and meaning of friendship. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation.

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Conference MOOC Learning Analytics Facebook 67

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

Once these types of factors are thought through, applications like Google Data Studio can speed up the creation of customized reports through the use of menus, drop-down lists, and drag-and-drop features, while also providing color and font choices that make the data easier and faster for recipients to review and put to good use.

Data 55

Data Education Report Professional Learning 55

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

I haven’t mentioned anything about on-campus educational technology mainly because I’m almost entirely focussed on wholly online learning now. We will see some more interesting things with augmented reality as Google Glasses and other wearable devices become available. What will be big in 2014? What will be less big in 2014?

MOOC 89

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Google’s origins are at Stanford. Computers, in many many ways, are simply an extension of this. But it’s actually quite an old one. Thanks to new technologies, we do have more data now to feed these measurements and assessments.

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Company Industry Assessment Examples 68

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Personalized Learning Pathways: Hybrid learning often incorporates personalized learning approaches, where students have some control over the pace and path of their learning, supported by technology that adapts to individual needs.

Trends 52

Trends Education Robotics Blended Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics.

Trends 40

Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. After Googling ( stop laughing at me! )

Data 59

Data Blackboard Learning Libraries 59

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Neufeld has an M.B.A.

Khan Academy 54

Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 54

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. Google’s search engine serves up more of what you’ve clicked on in the past. “You wouldn’t take a medicine that hasn’t been tested,” said Ryan S.

Personalized Learning 28

Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

I haven’t mentioned anything about on-campus educational technology mainly because I’m almost entirely focussed on wholly online learning now. We will see some more interesting things with augmented reality as Google Glasses and other wearable devices become available. What will be big in 2014? What will be less big in 2014?

MOOC 32

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft and Google offer schools "productivity tools," for example, making it quite clear — I would hope — that whatever students or staff type or click on feeds into financial measurements of efficiency. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.).

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 133

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. Although this quote mentions Microsoft, the same would apply to Google applications and many others. More on that below.)

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Robotics Technology Learning Analytics Policies 101

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Prince fought for a long time with record labels, and arguably that makes his response to the new digital “masters” – Apple, Google, Spotify, and such – more understandable. Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE).

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Technology Education VLE Industry 73

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” Via The New York Times : “ Google Pledges $300 Million to Clean Up False News.” ” Via Poynter : “ Poynter receives $3 million from Google to lead program teaching teens to tell fact from fiction online.” ” Venture Capital and the Business of Education. .”

Education 47

Education Robotics OER MOOC 47

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. One trend I am passionately interested in, and I see becoming more widespread in schools in 2017, is virtual reality.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

Technology 60

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 60

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Edwin has received an undisclosed amount of investment from Google for its tutoring app. Via Campus Technology : “When Learning Analytics Violate Student Privacy.” Digital training company QuizRR has raised $1.3 million from Norrsken Founders Fund and Working Capital. The tutoring app has raised $1.5 million total.

MOOC 43

MOOC Education Robotics Company 43

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

The Google Ngram Viewer, which is also based on material in print, suggests the frequency of these two terms’ usage – “individualization” and “personalization” – looks something like this: In the late twentieth century, talk of “individualization” gave way to “personalization.”

Personalized Learning 85

Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 85

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.”

Education 45

Education Robotics iPad Company 45

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Via the Providence Journal : “Three teachers have resigned from Blackstone Valley Prep after the charter school confirmed allegations that they posted hurtful messages about some of their students” into a Google Doc shared with the entire school. ” Here’s the rub: it’s an LMS. “Can U.S.

Coursera 61

Coursera Education E-rate Company 61

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. Tagged on: March 8, 2017 Benchmarking U.S.

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170