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Current Trends in Education

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Podcasts feature interviews with educators, researchers, and industry experts, offering insights into current trends and innovations. Increased Use of Learning Analytics: Educators are leveraging data and learning analytics to monitor student progress, identify areas of difficulty, and provide targeted interventions.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

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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Our digital future 9: Omni-choice learning

Learning with 'e's

In the tech industry, it's already seen as a notorious element in targeted advertising , surveillance and propaganda (for example in recent elections). It will likely be achieved through a combination of learning analytics (big data) and the evolution of personal technologies and ubiquitous computing. Unported License.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. The LINK Lab is a hub international scholars exploring the digitization of knowledge and learning and how this process impacts education. Siemens says rich data about students is a game changer for higher education.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. An interactive STEM curriculum comprises of learning modules which test a student’s critical thinking skills. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics. Improves Critical Thinking Skills. Bridges the Talent Gap.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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ProPublica looks at age discrimination at IBM , worth considering I think as part of a larger industry worship of youth and “ innovation ”: “Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

.” 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). Subscribe to their blog.