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A Jisc survey of 27,069 higher and further education students reveals that most are pleased with their digital learning, but areas such as wellbeing, mental health and staff digital skills need more attention.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/over-27000-students-share-how-colleges-and-universities-could-improve-digital-learning-08-mar-2021…

Increased internet-access spending by Texas public schools improved academic performance but also led to more disciplinary problems among students, a study of 9,000 schools shows.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210315160711.htm…

For those of who have not already seen it, this relatively new feature from Kahoot call math symbol  editor is of special help to math teachers and students. Math symbol  editor is now part of the built-in features in Kahoot …

For your organization, which comes first — distance or learning?

https://www.chieflearningofficer.com/2021/03/12/moving-from-distance-learning-to-learning-distanced-building-human-capabilities-in-times-of-disruption-and-social-distancing/…

In project-based and competency-based learning there is a focus on how one demonstrates learning. And although service learning has long been valued in education and the professional world, there has not traditionally been a great way to document it. One …

Want to get the most out of Gmail? Use these free apps and browser extensions to declutter your inbox and improve your email experience.

https://www.makeuseof.com/free-email-tools-to-clean-inbox-make-gmail-better…

When we give our students activities to complete asynchronously, especially if they are staggered over many weeks, it is pertinent to have strategies to accompany them and to help them develop their autonomy. In this article, I will suggest some …

If you are a tab collector and like to have several tabs open simultaneously on your Chrome this little hack will definitely be of great help. Tab groups allows you to organize your opened tabs into groups which you can …

Microsoft Teams is trying to make video calls a little less boring during the pandemic era of remote working with new presenter modes. These allow you to customize how you appear when you’re presenting in Teams. Three new modes will …

One billion public-facing Instagram photos were used to train an algorithm created by Facebook to learn to recognise images by itself. Afterwards it was able to correctly identify images with 84.5% accuracy, Facebook reported.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56321296…

Experiential learning takes many forms, but one form in particular has proven particularly potent: Active learning — where learners engage in debate, problem-solving, role-playing, product creation and so on — is much more effective than presenting and explaining content. It …

The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) is increasingly more familiar as we encounter it in our daily lives. (Have you asked Siri or Alexa a question lately?) As technology becomes a bigger part of teaching and learning, accelerated by the COVID-19 …

Learn about a way you can add captions to any video call through a quick Google Slides hack. If you haven’t thought about using captions during lessons, webinars, trainings, or live calls, this episode will show you how easy it …

In a survey of more than 2,500 teachers in eight countries, which was carried out in October/November 2020, there was one thing everyone seemed to agree on – online learning is not as effective as classroom-based teaching.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/classroom-teaching-better-than-remote-learning-education/…

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way of thinking about teaching and learning that helps give all learners equal opportunity to succeed.  UDL also supports the social constructivist theory of learning that knowledge develops as a result of social …