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Connectivism which aims to explain the learning that takes place within the digital environment by learners’ forming networks with other learners and even digital

sources such as Wikis, blogs, data clouds etc. is a new theory for the 21st century …

Technology in Education has been among us for a long while, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, technology-based teaching took a sprint. But let’s face it, it has not always been for the better. This article delves into the pros …

A 2014 research study with a catchy title is often pointed to by those who worry that technology is having unexpected downsides in the classroom. It’s titled “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note …

AI use cases in education include such kinds of applications as: Artificial Intelligence in training, learning and development, AI in higher education and Artificial Intelligence in K-12 education. We’ve gathered and outlined real-life examples of AI in education for each …

As colleges’ use of the technology grows, so do questions about bias and accuracy.

https://hechingerreport.org/from-admissions-to-teaching-to-grading-ai-is-infiltrating-higher-education/…

Can a film be shown during a synchronous activity? Can you distribute photocopies of a book on Moodle or LÉA? It is easy to get lost in all the considerations associated with copyright in education, especially when it comes to …

Like crafty genies, AIs will grant our wishes, and then hack them, exploiting our social, political, and economic systems like never before.

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-hackers-used-to-be-humans-soon-ais-will-hack-humanity…

In the Bioecology Technology program, 3rd-year students must set up a research project that is spread over 2 courses, Initiation à la recherche 1 and Initiation à la recherche 2 [Introduction to Research 1 and 2]. In order to provide …

Can we tell the difference between a machine-generated poem and a human-written one? Do we prefer one over the other? Researchers Nils Kobis and Luca D. Mossink examine these questions through two studies observing human behavioural reactions to a natural …

Hypothesis is a free open-source platform that not only provides students with a different way to demonstrate they’ve done the reading but more importantly allows students to work together to share information and build on the work of others.

https://www.profweb.ca/en/publications/articles/hypothesis-a-digital-tool-to-foster-student-ownership-of-reading-assignments…

Below are a few of the Top 10 e-learning solutions of 2021.

https://www.apppicker.com/developernews/40876/Top-10-e-Learning-Technologies-of-2021…

The mass migration to virtual learning that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic led to a profound change in student learning. While it presented many challenges, it also created opportunities for documenting responses.

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-students-virtual-environments.html…

In fascinating new research, cosmologists explain the history of the universe as one of self-teaching, autodidactic algorithms.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a36112655/universe-is-self-learning-algorithm/…

The latest Student Experience Survey results show that while hasty transitions to online tuition had surprisingly small negative effects on student ratings of teaching, for some students the lack of face-to-face interaction makes their overall student experience much less satisfying.…

Wordtune is a plugin which allows you to highlight a sentence in Google Docs, Gmail, or Outlook and it will suggest changes to your sentences. The suggestions will include corrections to grammar and spelling. Wordtune’s suggestions also include changes to …