In its latest update, PoodLL, a Moodle plugin family by prominent Moodler Justin Hunt, leverages the power of HTML5 features in audio and video recording and playback.
106 Experts Share Their Thoughts On The Future Of Education, Part 2: Edtech
We decided to produce an expert roundup on the topic of the future of education. We asked 106 education experts to answer one question: “What are your thoughts on the future of education?” In part 2 of this series, we …
What’s behind the soaring cost of college textbooks
Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. That has caused 65 percent of students to skip buying required texts …
EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program
EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors” degree that is designed to break the undergraduate credential into Lego-like components.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-01-25-edx-quietly-developing-microbachelors-program…
2017 Top Ten Books on Online Learning
2017 Top Ten Books on Online Learning
We selected ten books which help capture the ideas and resources made available in 2017. We make no pretense to be representative of all books published in all languages – our focus is …
5 Ideas for Writing with Technology
I think what happens to a lot of teachers is that they confuse the idea of teaching writing — when they are talking about technology — with teaching handwriting or keyboarding.
Presentation of the Week: Innovation in Educational Technology
What’s like to be a robot?
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From ‘Minecraft’ to mixed reality, Microsoft is preparing students for the future
Our goal at Microsoft is to provide the applications and solutions that put students front and center, and that empower every learner on the planet to achieve more.
https://news.microsoft.com/features/minecraft-mixed-reality-microsoft-preparing-students-future/…
An App That Encrypts Your Photos From Camera To Cloud
A new end-to-end encrypted app called Pixek wants to do for photos what Signal did for messaging.
https://www.wired.com/story/pixek-app-encrypts-photos-from-camera-to-cloud/…
Streamlined Voice Commenting in Google Docs with Kaizena
Kaizena is a free Google Docs Add-on that makes it easy to add voice comments to your documents and to the documents that students share with you. Today, the Kaizena team announced a new streamlined version of their Google Docs …
My Advice For Technophobic Teachers
Technophobia is generally defined as fear or anxiety relating to technology. It is common among teachers and often results in a reluctance to adopt new practices. As teachers, we all have our strengths and weaknesses. Here are my ten tips …
10 Data Science, Machine Learning and AI Podcasts You Must Listen To
With the rapid pace at which technology is driving innovation in machine learning and artificial intelligence, it has become immensely important to keep pace with the ongoing trends in data science. However, it can become challenging to read everything that’s …
5 of The Best Rubric Making Tools for Teachers
The sources list at the bottom of this post contains some useful links and resources to help you learn more about rubrics, how to use them, sample rubrics and many more. There are several tools you can use to create …
4 Higher Ed IT Trends to Watch in 2018
From driving up data to leveraging IT more effectively, here’s what universities will be up to this year.
https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/4-higher-ed-it-trends-to-watch…