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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. Technology offers itself as the solution. Not everywhere looks like Brandeis. I'm an ed-tech critic.

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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

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And that did happen for male participants in the study, who did better on a post-video quiz about the material when a happy voice delivered the material than when a sad one did. Sarin compared a white professor having a computer agent deliver their lecture video in a “Black voice” to a performer in blackface.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. We can add videos, information, permission slips, resources, etc. By recording informational videos and posting to Google Classroom, some meetings can be replaced altogether. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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MOOC-Ed: Coaching Digital Learning, Unit 1 Reflection

EdTechnocation.com

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. Small Steps When providing technology integration support, I often tell teachers to pick one way or one thing to do with the technology in the classroom or a lesson and focus on that.

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Our digital future 10: Cognitive courseware

Learning with 'e's

These technologies are all beginning to play roles in our digital lives and will grow in significance in the future. But have you heard of cognitive technology? Cognitive technologies can be defined as artificial intelligence tools that perform tasks that were once the sole preserve of humans. Unported License.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Acuitus’s earliest client was the U.S.

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