The next wave of educational technology innovation must get the faculty on board and make them central to institutions’ and companies’ strategies, Mike Silagadze argues.
A Big Publisher Embraces OER
Cengage will offer open educational resources, curated and adapted to include proprietary assessment tools, from $25 per student for general education courses.
Presentation of the Week: What is Artificial Intelligence
Why jobs of the future won’t feel like work
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Top 10 Very Hot Artificial Intelligence – AI Tech Already Being Used Today
To enable us comprehend what’s hot and so forth, Forrester published a TechRadar report regarding Artificial Intelligence (for application development experts), a detailed breakdown of 13 techs companies ought to consider integrating to help human decision-making. In view of Forrester’s …
How to Recover a Deleted or Unsaved File in Microsoft Word
We’ve all been there: a frantic search for a document you know you saved but just can’t find. It’s been deleted, but you’re sure that you didn’t do it — at least on purpose. But fear not, Microsoft Word has …
University lecturers are topping up earnings by helping students cheat, review suggests
University lecturers are topping up their earnings by helping students cheat in their degree, a government-backed review will suggest.
How Big Can Storage Devices Get?
It’s not just HDDs that are getting larger, SSDs and magnetic tape is as well. Samsung announced up to 128 TB SSDs available by 2018 with its latest generation of V-NAND flash memory and LTO capacities of over 10 TB …
Our Teacher-Free Future?
So, apparently a team of Georgia Tech graduate teaching assistants working IBM’s Watson platform managed to produce a glorified interactive FAQ for their 300-person online “artificial intelligence” course and now we can look forward to a future without teachers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/our-teacher-free-future…
Make School About Learning, Not About Grades
What do we value more in our classrooms, enduring learning or a classroom full of compliant, high scoring children who only value grades?
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2017/10/make_school_about_learning_not.html…
Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology
“Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. “We wanted to find all the studies and distill the main lessons so that decision makers can …
How Communities of Inquiry Drive Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Terry Anderson revisits the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model and looks at some more recent suggestions for extensions and revisions in this paper produced for Contact North in advance of the upcoming World Conference in Distance Learning.
What every teacher should know about … memory
In a new series of articles on how psychology research can inform teaching, Bradley Busch picks an academic study and makes sense of it for the classroom. This time: a project on long-term memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/oct/06/what-every-teacher-should-know-about-memory…
Introducing Education Resources, a source of Open Educational Resources within Office 365
Today we are launching the pilot between Open Up Resources and Microsoft Education. Open Up Resources is a nonprofit working to develop the highest quality full-course OER curricula, Common Core aligned, and provided for free to promote instructional equity.
10 Characteristics of Learner Centered Experiences
Education Reimagined defines the paradigm shift from teacher-centered to learner-centered as shifting how we see learners and their critical role in their own learning now, and throughout their lives.
https://katielmartin.com/2017/10/07/10-characteristics-of-learner-centered-experiences/…