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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

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

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Entrepreneur.com repeats this old story : “ Personalised learning with the help of Artificial Intelligence will change the Education System.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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