We can put together great courses, but we can’t guarantee a person learns from them. Learning requires some level of interest and motivation from the person taking the course. The good news is there are things we can do to …
What technical steps should the education industry take now to prepare itself for another pandemic-like event?
Modernizing infrastructure, developing skills-based curricula and broadening interactivity tools are among the steps recommended by experts.
https://www.protocol.com/braintrust/technical-steps-for-education-edtech…
How Conversational AI Is Shaping the Future of the Education Sector
We have witnessed how healthcare, education, mass media and finance are benefiting from conversational AI. But how about the education sector?
Developing the Digital Skills of Educational Advisors with the I-mersion Project
Are you an educational advisor in the college network? Then the I-mersion project is for you! As part of this project, Performa has been mandated by the ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur (Ministry of Higher Education) to support the development of …
How lessons learned in delivering courses last year may affect the mode of course delivery this fall
As universities prepare a return to on-campus activities, many are hoping to keep the advantages of remote teaching.
The Role of Assistant in The HyFlex Classroom
It is difficult, if not impossible, for a teacher to teach, “put on a performance” and deliver the content effectively at the same time. The presence of a teaching assistant can make all the difference. Far from being superfluous, the …
12 Good EdTech Tools to Use in Your Distance Education
Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your online (and also face-to-face) classroom teaching? The list below has you covered. It features a collection of some popular web tools you can use to perform a …
How to Move from Google Drive to OneDrive
Learn how you can move your files from Google Drive to OneDrive. Like most processes, there is more than one way to do this. In the video I focus on using Google Takeout which is probably the easiest way to …
How to Focus Intently and Beat Procrastination
Barbara Oakley PhD and Olav Schewe wrote Learn Like a Pro because they both struggled with studying and learning in the past. This excerpt describes the “Pomodoro Technique,” a mental tool you can use to boost your concentration.
You are a network
You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities…
7 Free Teaching Tools You Might Not Have Heard Of
Explore these free alternative web-based tools that support learning.
https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/7-free-teaching-tools-you-might-not-have-heard-of
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AI is growing in higher education, but it isn’t automating everything
Higher education institutions are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence as a helping hand in major decisions like admissions and counseling, but AI is still serving as an assistant, not a full-time employee.
Podcastle- An Easy Way to Convert Text to Podcasts
Podcastle is a text to speech Chrome extension that allows you to convert text into podcasts. This is an ideal tool for multitaskers who would rather engage in various tasks in real time. Whether it’s your favourite blog posts, news …
Time to Rethink AI Proctoring?
Proctoring companies that use artificial intelligence to monitor students’ behavior during online exams typically require university instructors to review footage of unusual activity. But is that human oversight actually happening?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/05/28/are-colleges-checking-ais-work-remote-exam-proctoring…
Assessing Students as in a Video Game
If you ask teenagers to do their homework they’ll find a thousand other things to do. But put them in front of a video game, and they’ll focus on it for hours. How exactly do game designers create this kind …