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In an experiment, researchers built an algorithmic teacher observer for analyzing the quality of instruction.

https://hechingerreport.org/how-artificial-intelligence-could-help-teachers-do-a-better-job/…

Thanks in huge part to the tireless work and feedback of teachers and students across the world, #MicrosoftEDU is thrilled to announce 10 fresh new features in Teams for the upcoming school year.

https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/08/back-to-school-microsoft-teams-new-features/…

The use of virtual file-sharing platforms like Dropbox, Google Docs, and others has become ubiquitous in business, academic, and other settings. But is your team using such collaborative platforms as effectively as they could be?

https://hbr.org/2018/07/a-study-of-thousands-of-dropbox-projects-reveals-how-successful-teams-collaborate…

As with much of its history the academic library is at a crossroads. The exploding budgets for journal subscriptions which are necessary to the living and breathing research institution is slowly strangling libraries.

https://acrlog.org/2018/08/08/open-access-and-the-benevolence-of-multinational-corporations/…

This article summarizes the process and results of the 2017 pan-Canadian survey on online learning. The main result: “Online learning and distance education were clearly alive and well in Canada in 2017.

https://educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-018-0112-3…

That technology is already here. It is facial recognition technology, and its dangers are so great that it must be rejected entirely.

https://www.edtechstrategies.com/blog/big-brother-in-schools/…

GitHub has made more than a couple headlines in June, mostly in regard to Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of the internet’s most popular code sharing platform. This week, the company announced that it would make GitHub Education, a suite of …

A lot of companies are trying to make it easier to use artificial intelligence, but few are making it as simple as Lobe. The startup, which launched earlier this year, offers users a clean drag-and-drop interface for building deep learning …

Making their own VR tours could be a great way for students to show what they have learned about places they studied in a geography lesson. Think of making a VR tour as an alternative to a traditional PowerPoint presentation. …

The advancements in the development of artificial intelligence spread all over the world at a tremendous speed and create an incredible hype increasing our expectations. In this article, we have compiled 9 ways to use artificial intelligence in education.

http://bigdata-madesimple.com/9-ways-to-use-artificial-intelligence-in-education/…

Boost confidence and focus with these free, accessible, and fresh texts.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/06/05/how-podcasts-can-improve-literacy/…

Woolf will be the first blockchain-powered university with its own native token. The design has been developed by an independent group of academics (mostly from the University of Oxford), and experienced academics will form the first college in the collegiate …

What do online students want? According to a new survey, they want to conduct more of their course activities on their mobile phones or tablets, and they’d like better career-planning services. Their biggest regrets? They all relate to not having …