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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere.

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Education Technology Trends for 2017: An Interview With Martin McKay.

EdTech4Beginners

Another example of this is smartphones. Pupils can use a $5 Google Cardboard, put their own smartphone in there and their teacher can take them to the Moon or Mars, or to an art exhibition in Paris. Will Learning analytics have a major impact upon Education this year? Learning analytics and big data are huge.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. The effects of these updates might be insignificant to our ignorant eyes, but it makes a significant difference in the performance of the smartphone. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. Improves Critical Thinking Skills.

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Mobile learning and personal metrics

Learning with 'e's

The first principle in the article above relates to access, and states: "A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. Such large data sets can conceivably be sold on for a sizeable profit to companies who are interested.

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How a Parody Twitter Account Helps Decode the Hulking Educause Conference (And What to Expect This Year)

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ANY PUNY HUMAN SMARTPHONE ONLY! Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want? “We don’t even know what our computing devices are going to look like,” he said. Or as Educause Hulk put it: EDUCAUSE HULK #EDU16 QUESTION! WHAT DEVICE PUNY HUMAN BRING TO ANAHEIM! NOT TRENDY ANYMORE!

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Florida Virtual School mirgrates to Brightspace

eSchool News

The new Brightspace Daylight experience is built from the ground up to work on any device and be fully accessible so students and teachers can use smartphones, tablets or any browser-enabled device.

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The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environment

TeachThought - Learn better.

Today’s students are studying and learning differently – a change confirmed by the widespread adoption of digital studying. Our recent study found that 81% of college students use mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) to study, the second most popular device category behind laptops and up 40 percent in usage since 2013.