This project-based course from MIT explores educational technologies and the theories underlying their development through interviews with experts in the field.
https://www.edx.org/course/design-development-educational-mitx-11-132x-0…
DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
This project-based course from MIT explores educational technologies and the theories underlying their development through interviews with experts in the field.
https://www.edx.org/course/design-development-educational-mitx-11-132x-0…
LearnLaunch Accelerator supports edtech startups from across the globe with access to mentors, coaching, seed funding, and other resources essential to growth.
http://venturefizz.com/blog/learnlaunch-unveils-latest-startups-edtech…
Google wants to teach you deep learning — if you’re ready that is. The tech giant has launched a free course explaining the machine learning technique that underpins so many of its services.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/22/10813984/google-deep-learning-udacity…
If you’re the kind of person who constantly resets passwords and usernames, or worse, recycles the same password you’ve been using for the past seven years, you need a password management tool.
Young people are spending more time playing and socialising online than watching television programmes, according to an annual survey tracking children’s media behaviour in the UK.
Kinvolved is an app that lets teachers take each student’s attendance with the swipe of a finger. Teachers can customize lateness alerts to include the number of class minutes missed. (The school does not copy students on these messages.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/technology/an-app-helps-teachers-track-student-attendance.html…
Higher education practitioners in British Columbia have built and are sustaining an Open Practice community, but it hasn’t been a straight-line development process over the past 13 years, nor has it been completely planned and there have been many …
The annual tech-fest known as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place Jan. 6- 9 in Las Vegas, and companies new and old have already unveiled their latest bells and whistles. Here are 10 newly introduced products with the …
With a generous bit of literary license, we can borrow from Sir Isaac and posit that in terms of student outcomes, Achievement equals Quality Instruction times Innovation (A = QI x I).
There are five changes occurring in pedagogy as a result of the prevalence of technology that are having a significant impact on post-secondary education.
A growing number of schools and nonprofits are building their first online courses. If you’re considering migrating your professional development program, curriculum, or training online, you’ll quickly be asking: “What platform should we use?”
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-01-10-how-to-choose-the-right-tools-for-your-online-course…
Some of the things you can do with these web tools include: creating different types of diagrams (e.g flowcharts and organizational charts), solve math problems, build and share word searches online, convert/compress and share video files and more!
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/01/6-new-edtech-tools-for-teachers.html…
The Open Education Trend Report 2015 describes the trends in open and online education in the Netherlands and abroad from the perspective of Dutch higher education in nine articles by Dutch open and online education experts and eight brief …