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 report undertakes a review of the current data landscape across English higher education institutions, looking at data collections, learning analytics and the current barriers to implementing better data management and data analytics. It then looks ahead to how …
Each of these tools can make your teaching more efficient and effective, and your students’ learning deeper and more engaging.
http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/6-ed-tech-tools-to-try-in-2016/…
In the collection below, we have curated for you some of the best iPad and Android apps that will enable you to turn your tablet into an interactive whiteboard.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/01/some-great-apps-to-turn-your-ipad-into.html…
This list is also great for those of you who are new to Google Docs add-ons and are looking for some teacher-tested titles to try out. We invite you to check them out.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/01/10-of-best-google-docs-add-ons-for-teachers.html…
Over the past two years, we and our partners at the Open Syllabus Project (based at the American Assembly at Columbia) have collected more than a million syllabuses from university websites. Our hope and expectation is that this tool …
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 …