DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
The age of big data and advanced analytics thrusts higher education institutions into uncharted territory. Predictive analytics opens a Pandora’s box of controversial questions: What are the ethical guidelines for telling students a discouraging prediction? Would discouraging information decrease …
If MOOCs are a sort of robot, then why haven’t the MOOC robots taken the faculty jobs? MOOCs seem like the poster child for technological unemployment. The faculty job market may be grim, but I don’t think that MOOCs …
While the NAO humanoid robot sounds much like a work of science fiction, the 58-centimetre machine is actually making a difference in some Quebec classrooms. A researcher from the Université de Montréal has helped bring the NAO into four …
This is a list featuring some popular platforms that provide open digital textbooks. Textbooks are arranged into different categories and content areas. Some of the textbooks are available for free download in various formats others can only be read …
The world’s best player of what might be humankind’s most complicated board game was defeated on Tuesday by a Google computer program. Adding insult to potentially deep existential injury, he was defeated at Go — a game that claims …
A selection of videos featuring presentations from the recent MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2017 is now available for viewing on Moodle’s YouTube channel.
https://moodle.com/2017/05/16/moodlemoot-uk-ireland-2017-video-presentations-now-available/…
Here are some of the key benefits of using backchannels in your classroom.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/05/benefits-of-using-backchannels-in-your.html…
The ability for companies to follow you from one platform to another — from your phone to your laptop to a physical store — is called cross-device tracking, and for businesses that want to market and sell stuff to …
Training software to accurately sum up information in documents could have great impact in many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607828/an-algorithm-summarizes-lengthy-text-surprisingly-well/…
As I get ready to walk at my college graduation next week, I have more gratitude for one thing above all: YouTube. YouTube was my go to while doing homework, prepping for exams or just when I needed to …
Artificial Intelligence has proven its role as a game changing factor in an increasing number of fields, causing transformations unimaginable in the past. It’s now showing glimmers of how it might forever change the learning process, one of the …
Do teachers really know what students go through? To find out, one teacher followed two students for two days and was amazed at what she found.
AI is indeed the ultimate weapon in the fight for the millennial generation’s ever-shortening attention span. Luckily, rapid strides in the field of machine learning will help unravel what this fickle “target market” really wants.
https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/16/how-ai-will-help-us-decipher-millennials/…