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The pace of technological change calls for changes in how higher education represents—and how employers use and understand—student learning and competency.

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/9/can-education-keep-up-with-technology…

Creating an online discussion space, often referred to as a backchannel, is one of the ways that nearly all teachers can create more opportunities for students to interact with them and their classmates.

https://practicaledtech.com/2018/09/23/how-to-create-an-online-discussion-space-for-your-classes-and-why-you-should/…

Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: no. But not everyone agrees – many people, including the late physicist Stephen Hawking, have raised concerns that the …

After launching five years ago—and seeping into nearly half of all U.S. schools—Kahoot is offering the first premium version of its game-based learning platform.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-09-21-kahoot-launches-first-ever-premium-version-for-schools…

The article concluded that that background noise, speech, and music all have small but reliable negative impacts on reading comprehension.

http://www.danielwillingham.com/daniel-willingham-science-and-education-blog/should-students-listen-to-background-music-while-they-read…

Introducing the innovative technologies into the educational system leads to the fact that one of the most active users of different gadgets are students. Here is a list of the most interesting devices which are very useful for students.

https://techlog360.com/gadgets-which-will-help-you-in-education…

OECD’s annual Education at a Glance looks at who participates in education, what is spent on it, how education systems operate and the results achieved.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/education-at-a-glance-2018_eag-2018-en…

The New Google Earth is a fantastic way to flatten the walls of your classroom and explore the world with your students.

https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/flatten-the-walls-of-your-classroom-with-the-new-google-earth/…

We’ll focus on two basic feedback gathering strategies: polls and surveys. We have curated for you some of the most popular web tools you can use to create various types of polls and surveys. In doing so, we have divided …

Whenever you click that easy “Sign in With Google” button on a company’s website, you’re granting the app or service access to some of your information.

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-stop-third-party-apps-from-reading-your-email-1829232539…

These tools support the popular MLA, APA, and Chicago styles as well as several other citation styles. They also offer two modes of generating citations: an automatic mode and a manual mode. Additionally, the sites feature some interesting step-by-step guides …

Generation Z students, classified as being between the ages of 14 and 23, believe that YouTube is a bigger contributor to their education than textbooks, according to a study by Pearson Education.

https://www.axios.com/youtube-education-teaching-students-generation-z-fa60d828-2492-42d0-9102-3edb1a59592e.html…