Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A consortium of 25 universities unveiled a new platform last month that will pull in information from systems across campus to bring richer analytics to college classrooms. Unizin has worked to leverage the collective buying power of its members, all of which are large universities. Numbers speak.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

One reason boils down to a technicality: such research usually requires the approval of a college’s Institutional Review Board, or IRB, the office that makes sure any research involving human subjects follows legal and ethical guidelines. The university is still analyzing the results.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The act of talking with others—having social debates and conversations—is key to human learning, and this “social learning” has now become an important tenet of teaching and learning. If we can scale formal learning by taking it online, we can scale social learning there as well.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2017

The desire to understand and improve learning has led many educators to consider the value and utility of this information. In this, Georgia State University is exemplary. When the university first developed and deployed a new advising system , it also invested in people.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. But I am sort of all-in on analytics as a concept. Occasionally, we do bring in interviews.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. Her academic career spans more than 25 years, and she has extensive experience as a C-level academic administrator in universities that predominantly serve adults. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

And that’s forcing companies and colleges around the globe to reevaluate their data policies and practices. For massive open online courses, which straddle colleges and universities and the private sector, expectations around compliance are murky. residents honor the right of individuals to have their information removed.

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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. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

When most people hear the letters ACT , they likely think of the test that helps determine which colleges they get into. In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. Its latest: a $7.5 Its latest: a $7.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2016

On the Leading Edge of Higher Education Innovation with Jeff Selingo (Arizona State University) and F. Alexander (Louisiana State University). Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want? Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

That meant Harvard University’s library (with 18.9-million million books) was clearly superior to Duke University’s (with 6.1-million million volumes) or University of California at Riverside’s (with a mere 3 million titles). Many college leaders now see encouraging library use as a way to boost student success.

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Omega Notes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Some institutions in the industry have embraced this shift, but most colleges and universities have struggled to find a solution. This reality is largely lead by the fact that educators are finding it challenging to implement a comprehensive content solution which permits effective design of blended learning courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The full stack of technologies and frivolous thrills one might expect to find on today’s college campuses were on full display at Educause, the. The full stack of technologies and frivolous thrills one might expect to find on today’s college campuses were on full display at Educause, the. Switches, routers, panels and projectors.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Speaking to an audience of researchers from the education industry last week at the Bay Area Learning Analytics Conference , held at the University of California at Berkeley, Deb shared how Chegg uses a Stanford-built tool to try to keep out students who just want an online tutor to do their homework.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Lost income negatively impacts a university’s ability to carry out its mission, but even worse is the tragedy that many of these lost students will never realize their full potential without a complete education. How can you stop this inferno from consuming your university’s future? This loss will be devastating. Engage Students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

In Boston, conference-goers heard how higher-ed tech will affect teaching and learning in years to come, questioned the values and assumptions behind those predictions, and learned predictive techniques to apply to their daily lives. Which goal should we strive for? The challenge left at least one head “spinning” (in a good way)!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Based on universal access to free and equal schools, the social contract for public education equates the attainment of a high school diploma with readiness for college, meaningful participation in the workforce, and the rights and responsibilities of adulthood.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A pair of consultants who run a popular edtech blog plan to start offering events—in hopes of getting people at colleges and companies who don’t usually talk to each other to join forces on innovative teaching efforts. Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.”

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

Habitable Worlds , an introductory science course that Arizona State University professor Ariel Anbar has taught online for five years. It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. Welcome to. Course of the Future.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

So, if and when, it does begin to make its presence felt in our schools, colleges and universities, what might we expect? AI will help to hyper-personalize this omni-choice functionality so that students can focus more on their actual learning and less on the mechanics of their learning." Unported License.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2016

Change may be hard, but at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) we're embracing it. Specifically, UMUC is about to embark on a 36-month transformation that will see its core learning model shift from memorizing knowledge to one that is experiential and competency-based.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Lost income negatively impacts a university’s ability to carry out its mission, but even worse is the tragedy that many of these lost students will never realize their full potential without a complete education. How can you stop this inferno from consuming your university’s future? This loss will be devastating. Engage Students.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Lost income negatively impacts a university’s ability to carry out its mission, but even worse is the tragedy that many of these lost students will never realize their full potential without a complete education. How can you stop this inferno from consuming your university’s future? This loss will be devastating. Engage Students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. From project-based lessons in STEAM curriculum to summer-long STEAM camps, Navas facilitates “making” in projects big and small.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environment. Candidatein Higher Education at The University of Virginia, Curry School of Education. Today’s students are studying and learning differently – a change confirmed by the widespread adoption of digital studying. by Amy Moynihan , Ph.D.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Remarkable breakthroughs happen at public research universities everyday, but bridging the gap between early innovation and widespread adoption is a challenge that these institutions know all too well. DIG has received a steady flow of inquiries and visits from peer universities and edtech innovators. Be impractical.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. So what’s really frustrating is that students definitely take those seriously but it might not always be taken as seriously by the university.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

University strikes continue in the UK. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Four plaintiffs who attended Corinthian Colleges programs are suing Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education in U.S. “The Mysterious Deal to Take DeVry University Private” by David Halperin. National) Education Politics.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A recent University of Phoenix College of Education survey showed that about 58% of teachers use educational apps and 41% use social media. Join us for What Ed Tech Apps Work Best for Learning? Even more, they need to know the impact of these apps -- if students are learning because of them.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The rise is also due to people''s desire to develop their learning informally. There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. measures) of understanding and ''performance of knowledge'' will be available."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

While a wave of courses from prominent universities are now labeled as MOOCs, we''ll drill down on the connectivist roots of the early MOOC offerings and discuss the importance of the differences between them and the current breed. Log in at [link]. psid=2012-09-26.0742.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

The question of who’s most likely to succeed also drives the world of selective college admissions. But the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the sudden decision by many colleges to make submitting such scores optional. Enshrining cliques and clubs, acne and braces, these artifacts capture students as they are, in the present.

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Mistakengoal.com

DECEMBER 29, 2013

higher education e.g., What Faculty Should Know About Adaptive Learning , State of the Anglosphere’s Higher Education LMS Market: 2013 Edition. higher education e.g., What Faculty Should Know About Adaptive Learning , State of the Anglosphere’s Higher Education LMS Market: 2013 Edition.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Volley Labs Raises $2.3

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

As part of the course, students are engaging in a “Great Ed-Tech Debate,” arguing one side or another of a variety of topics: that technology enhances learning, that technology is a force for equity, that social media is ruining childhood, and so on. Ed-tech is big business. billion in the 2012–13 academic year.

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