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.
Time spent online ‘overtakes TV’ among youngsters
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.
An App Helps Teachers Track Student Attendance
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…
Presentation of the Week: Being Good Digital Partners With College Students On Social Media
Can a Computer Write Poetry?
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Supporting Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
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 …
10 Products From CES That Will Impact the Classroom
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 …
Newton’s New Law of Teaching: When Quality Instruction and Technology Intersect
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).
Five Ways Online Learning is Enabling Change in Post-Secondary Education
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.
How to Choose the Right Tools for Your Online Course
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…
6 New EdTech Tools for Teachers
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…
Open and Online Education Trend Report 2015
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 …
Microsoft Neural Net Shows Deep Learning Can Get Way Deeper
Computer vision now a part of everyday life. Facebook recognizes faces in the photos you post to the popular social network. All of this “seeing” stems from a remarkably effective breed of artificial intelligence called deep learning. But as far …
Young, educated and underemployed: are we building a nation of PhD baristas?
Recent labour market analysis by the Canadian Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), building on previous work by Statistics Canada, paints a grim picture relevant to our concerns youth underemployment.
4 Trends Shaping Higher Education in 2016
With each new year come new promises of technology disruptions in higher education. In 2015, we saw record investment in edtech; and competency-based education programs gained momentum with colleges and universities. What changes will 2016 bring?
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-01-19-4-trends-shaping-higher-education-in-2016…