Microsoft just announced a redesigned web experience for Office.com, an easy-to-remember URL to help you sign in to Office 365 and get to all your apps, documents, sites, and people. It’s also introducing the new Office 365 gallery to provide …
Check out what’s in the store for Moodle 3.4
Moodle 3.4 – the upcoming major version of Moodle project, is due to be released in November 2017. Moodle project releases a new major version after every six months. Every new version has a lot of new features and improvements …
Future Forward: The Next Twenty Years of Higher Education
Forecasting the future is always a difficult affair, especially in this age of rapidly changing technology. Across the interviews, however, we heard several themes emerge time and again.
12 Productivity Tools For Tech-savvy Teachers
Technology is constantly evolving, and the teacher’s role can easily be enhanced by the many tools available online. We’ve outlined 12 productivity tools in four categories that all tech-savvy teachers should consider.
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How big data is disrupting education
From healthcare to hospitality, and retail to real estate, big data is having an impact in all industries – and education is no exception. Educators are using big data to identify weak points in the education system, improve teaching methods, …
9 Awesome Add-ons for Google Forms
Google Forms is already a very powerful, full-featured program that allows you to create forms, surveys, polls, quizzes, and more. Google allows third-party people to create Add-Ons that can be easily installed, which add new features and tools to Google …
9 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle
You’d be forgiving for thinking your Amazon Kindle is just a tiny slate only fit for reading. That’s what it’s designed for, sure, but your humble e-reader has some hard-to-find, little-known tricks up its sleeve. Here are the best Kindle …
WebRoom – Free Online Conferencing With Virtual Whiteboard
WebRoom is a free service for hosting online meetings. WebRoom doesn’t require you to download any software and you don’t need to register in order to use it. To launch a meeting on WebRoom you simply enter your name and …
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
Creative Commons (CC) licenses give people “a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work” (Creative Commons). Instead of requiring each person wanting to use, share or adapt the creative work to ask permission, a CC license …
26 Innovation Breakthroughs at the World’s Open Universities
This is a short post (6 page PDF) with one-paragraph descriptions of innovations at open universities around the world. Together, the set provides others with a sort of menu of options they can follow. Most usefully, each one has a …
The Boost Students Need to Overcome Obstacles
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Presentation of the Week: Learning by Teaching
An Excellent Gmail Add-on for Teachers
Checker Plus for Gmail is a good Chrome extension you can use with both Gmail and Inbox. It allows you to access, read and delete your emails without having to open Gmail or Inbox. It also supports multiple Gmail and …
College textbooks are going the way of Netflix
Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, and O’Brien, his co-author, have spent the last three years transforming their classic textbook into a product that can only be described as “education software.” Hubbard and O’Brien worked with an editor for a …
Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look At The Only Statewide School Laptop Program
Research has shown that “one-to-one” programs, meaning one student one computer, implemented the right way, increase student learning in subjects like writing, math and science.