How will higher education institutions have to position in order to prepare future graduates for the changing society and future work place? The Future Skills Report 2019 is based on a number of prior research studies on future skills – …
Get Instant Feedback on Your Presentations With Presenter Coach
Presenter Coach is one of best features to be added to PowerPoint in a long time. Presenter Coach is found in the online version of PowerPoint that anyone can use with a free Microsoft account. Presenter Coach will give you …
Presentation of the Week: A Distributed Content Addressable Network for Open Educational Resources
Cryptographers, quantum computers and the war for information
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11 Best Teacher Training Course Online, Tools and Certifications 2019
Do want to learn how to teach or improve your teaching skills? We have found the Best Teacher Training Course Online, Tools and Certifications for you.
https://www.digitallearningland.com/best-teacher-training-course-online/…
Students gravitate to technology as a way of cheating
Students have joked, “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough.” And although students may laugh off the comment in a nonchalant way, the reality is… they’re not kidding. Cheating is a common phenomenon among high schoolers and continues …
‘It’s an educational revolution’: how AI is transforming university life
AI chatbots have arrived on UK university campuses. But is the hype justified?
Presenting Nathalie Bastien: The IT Representatives Network’s New Coordinator
The Quebec college network received a highly anticipated bit of news at the start of the Fall 2019 semester. After months of speculation on potential candidates, the network finally learned who would replace Nicole Perreault as the community leader of …
Cellphone ban in Ontario classrooms started already
A ban on the use of cellphones in Ontario classrooms comes into effect on November 4th. The ban, first announced by the government earlier this year, had been delayed to give school boards time to implement the restriction. Under the …
Using learning analytics to predict mastery: a flawed concept?
The study proposes a method to predict the point at which a student will reach skill mastery within an adaptive learning system, based on ‘current approaches to estimating student knowledge’.
https://www.tonybates.ca/2019/11/01/using-learning-analytics-to-predict-mastery-a-flawed-concept/…
4 Phases Of Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guide For Teachers
According to Indiana University Bloomington, Inquiry-based learning is an “instructional model that centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question. There are several different inquiry-based learning models, but most have several general elements in common.…
Benefits of Using Video in Education
Using videos in teaching and learning would help not only students but teachers as well. The online nature of videos allows them to be shared at all hours of the day or night throughout the world. By using videos to …
14 ways to turn your classroom into a game show
Game shows are fun to watch and even more fun to be a part of. There are lots of ways to bring game show style learning to your classroom. Here are 14 ideas plus tools and templates to get started.…
Easy Ways to Add Polls & Quizzes to Existing Slideshows
The slideshows I use in my classroom and those that I use for conference keynotes include some interactive components. I do this in my classroom as a means to quickly gauge my students’ understanding of the lesson. There are a …