Student belonging is an ongoing process that requires outreach and a good user experience, writes a researcher and communications expert at WGU Labs.
Best Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers and Students
Mind maps are inclusive tools and tend to give students divergent learning styles. Students can use them to collaboratively or individually brainstorm ideas, plan for projects, document outlines, create presentations, write short summaries, and many more. The collection below features …
A Master List of 1,700 Free Courses From Top Universities: A Lifetime of Learning on One Page
The list lets you download audio & video lectures from schools like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and many other institutions. Generally, the courses can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or university web sites, and you can listen to the …
5 Best Online Book Clubs and Forums to Discuss What You Read
These online book clubs are an excellent way to create a reading habit and meet fellow bibliophiles to discuss books.
https://www.makeuseof.com/online-book-clubs-forums-discuss-what-you-read/
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AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Engaging Educators
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems for learning environments have traditionally been designed to help students, however new AI systems are being designed to assist or support educators. Teachers want to be in the loop as they lead classrooms, develop lessons, grade …
Eductive Lunch & Learn: Towards a Cybersafe College Network
How aware are you of cybersecurity risks in your work as a learning professional? Whether or not we realize it, we all deal with large amounts of data in our professional activities, much of it belonging to others. During this …
Expensive Textbooks Are Still A Problem. Will Higher Quality OER Help?
High textbook costs continue to prove a barrier to college for some students, with some studies showing that many students skip textbook purchases even if they worry it’ll harm their grades because of the price tag. These days low-cost alternatives …
How to Set Up and Use Multiple Monitors on Windows 11
Once you add a second monitor to your PC, you’ll wonder how you made do with just one. Here’s how to add another monitor to Windows 11.
https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-multiple-monitor-set-up/…
Tech Tools That Help Teachers and Students Exchange Feedback
Teachers can use these tools to give students feedback—and seek feedback in return—to support deeper understanding and growth.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/tech-tools-help-teachers-and-students-exchange-feedback…
AI Helps Teachers Spot Students With Learning Difficulties
Artificial intelligence helps teachers identify which of their students have learning difficulties, according to a new study. Teachers make more accurate assessments of learning difficulties such as dyslexia and ADHD among their students if they are given AI-generated feedback rather …
Teaching in the Hybrid Virtual Classroom
Higher Education students and lecturers have returned to campus after a turbulent period of closed classrooms. There is continued experimentation and exploration of possibilities. Should we offer courses 100% online? 100% on campus? Or search for the perfect ‘blend’? How …
Worried you have Covid? Cough at your PHONE! Scientists develop an app that can detect whether you’ve been infected with 92% accuracy.
Scientists have developed a smartphone app that can detect whether you’ve been infected with Covid-19. The app, called ResApp, uses machine learning to analyse the sounds of your cough. During testing, the app was found to correctly detect Covid-19 in …
Elai.io: Generate video content with human narrators from just text
Elai.io is a leading text-to-video platform that allows you to build customized AI videos with a presenter using only text. A simple click is all it takes to generate a video with 69 languages available for translation.
Matching instruction to preferred learning styles does not raise achievement
As a leading study put it, “there is no adequate evidence base to justify incorporating learning styles assessments into general educational practice”. Yet, despite this conclusion of the evidence, as well as subsequent studies which relegate this association to the …
Metaverse and Education: What Do We Need to Know?
The metaverse can be leveraged as a space to create more opportunities for learning, in particular, for hybrid learning and providing more access for students than what might exist in a physical setting.
https://www.gettingsmart.com/2022/04/18/metaverse-and-education-what-do-we-need-to-know/
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