AI and Education: The Reality and the Potential
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Five Good Alternatives to YouTube for Finding Educational Videos
Here are five good alternatives to searching on YouTube for educational video clips.
5 Ways to Promote Student Success in Online Learning
A new report from Strada Education Network offers key takeaways from last fall’s Online Student Success Symposium, a two-day workshop focused on challenges, innovative practices and future opportunities in online learning.
Technology Has No Impact on Teaching and Learning
In all honesty, we believe wholeheartedly that technology has no impact on teaching and learning … in an environment devoid of support.
MIT Starts University Group to Build New Digital Credential System
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today announced a collaboration to build a system that would let institutions issue digital diplomas and credentials in a way that can be verified without needing to check with a human registrar.
Professor Robot – why AI could soon be teaching in university classrooms
The number of robots around the world is increasing rapidly. The full potential of these disruptive technologies is yet to be discovered, but their impact on teaching and learning is expected to be huge. This means that higher education might …
Here Is An Excellent Web Tool for Creating Rubrics
Quick Rubric is a new web-based application that allows you to easily set up criterion-referenced rubrics to score your students’ performances and assignments. You can use Quick Rubric to create rubrics to help you assess things such as oral presentations, …
The 10 Vital Skills You Will Need For The Future Of Work
Fast-paced technological innovations mean that most of us will soon share our workplaces with artificial intelligences and bots, so how can you stay ahead of the curve? Start by adopting a commitment to lifelong learning so you can acquire the …
Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the future
Instead of thinking about machine intelligence in terms of humans vs machines, we should consider the system that integrates humans and machines – not artificial intelligence but extended intelligence. Instead of trying to control or design or even understand systems, …
Horizon Report 2019 Higher Education Edition
The Horizon Project can be regarded as education’s longest-running exploration of emerging technology trends that support teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.
https://library.educause.edu/-/media/files/library/2019/4/2019horizonreport.pdf…
Alexa, Do You Belong in the Classroom?
Educators balance privacy concerns with learning possibilities when considering the use of voice devices in the classroom.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/alexa-do-you-belong-classroom?es_p=9149101…
An AI smartwatch that detects seizures
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Presentation of the Week: What is Adaptive Learning & Why Should It Be Part of Your Learning Strategy
A Good Video Annotating Tool for Teachers and Students
MoocNote is a new web tool ideal for flipped classrooms. Using MoocNote, you will be able to build your own video library by importing videos from YouTube, Dropbox, or Google Drive. You can also use MoocNote’s video player interface to …
Glide – Make Your Own App by Just Making a Spreadsheet
Glide enables anyone who can make a spreadsheet in Google Sheets to create his or her own mobile app. If that sounds simple, that’s because it is just that simple. The headers that you put into your spreadsheet and the …