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4 Ways to Create E-Learning Courses That Effectively Engage Learners
Whether the learning experience is based in academia or in the workplace, ensuring that educators and trainers design their courses in a way that engages learners should be a top priority for any e-learning program. This article will give you …
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
RSS is a family of technologies that give you a simple feed from a spot on the web—a news site, a podcast, a blog—into your RSS reader. It’s a timeline of sorts, yes, but it runs at a sane speed, …
Build Your Own Robotic Cat with An Open Source Kit by Petoi
Try your hand at robotics with Nybble, a programmable cat that walks, bats its paws, and even regains its balance after a jump from a tall surface. The cat is the brainchild of RongzhongLi of Petoi, who built the feline …
Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem (free ebook)
Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem is an implementation blueprint for connecting learning experiences across time and space. This co-created plan represents an advancement of how and where learning will occur in the future.
https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/modernizing-learning-building-future-learning-ecosystem
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Learning analytics: going live
With Jisc’s learning analytics service going live last summer, we caught up with some of the people who are part of the community of practice shaping the service, to find out how implementation is going and what learning analytics is …
Adoption of AI in education is accelerating. Massive potential but hurdles remain
As in many other fields, AI in education is focused on performing cognitive functions such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, and problem-solving with application to vast the challenges and opportunities of continuously educating the 7.7 billion people on the planet.
https://www.holoniq.com/notes/ai-potential-adoption-and-barriers-in-global-education/…
Creating Interactive Videos & Video-based Lessons
Good resources to help you creating interactive video-based lessons.
https://practicaledtech.com/2019/04/07/creating-interactive-videos-video-based-lessons/…
Why Is China The World’s Leader In Edtech?
In 2018, Chinese startups received over 50% of all the capital invested by venture capitalists in EdTechs worldwide. Chinese EdTech companies received more money than the total amount invested in EdTech firms from all other countries combined.
How Canada Became an Education Superpower
When there are debates about the world’s top performing education systems, the names that usually get mentioned are the Asian powerhouses such as Singapore and South Korea or the Nordic know-alls, such as Finland or Norway. But with much less …
Presentation of the Week: Using learning analytics to improve student transition into and support throughout the 1st year
Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
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Social Media Is Ruining Our Memories
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1…
Outlook’s new AI features help you plan for meetings
Microsoft just announced that it is beefing up Outlook with new AI-driven features. In the next few weeks (in North America in English), it will roll out a trio of features in Outlook on the web to expedite meeting prep, …
Story time with e-books ‘not as helpful’ as print books
Researchers from the University of Michigan found parents talked more about the technology than content when using electronic books. With print, the frequency and quality of interactions were better, said lead author Dr Tiffany Munzer.