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 …
New MOOC: Design and Development of Educational Technology
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 Unveils the Latest Startups in EdTech
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 just published a free, three-month course on deep learning
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…
The Best Password Managers and How to Use Them
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…