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“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 …

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.

https://teachonline.ca/sites/default/files/pdf/e-newsletters/how_communities_of_inquiry_drive_teaching_and_learning_in_the_digital.pdf…

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…

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.

https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2017/10/introducing-education-resources-a-source-of-open-educational-resources-within-office-365/…

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/…

In We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, John Cheney-Lippoldexamines how algorithms increasingly interpret and influence our behaviour. With the author concluding with some pragmatic suggestions for challenging the digital status quo, Daniel Zwiwelcomes the book …

Spark is a FREE three-part tool: Post allows users to create social media graphics (i.e. memes, inspirational quotes); Video allows users to create animated videos (complete with options for music and/or narration with images in motion); and Page allows users …

The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2017 (11th Annual Survey) has been compiled by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies from the votes of 2,174 learning professionals worldwide.

http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/…

Where do you start with curation? There are many great websites on all sorts of topics. Here is an ultimate list of content curation sources across multiple industries.  

https://medium.com/social-media-tips/how-to-curate-content-quickly-and-70-places-to-find-great-content-89a4671b269…

The article analyses the pedagogic architecture of MOOC on pedagogic/educational subjects in Spanish over one academic year (September 2015-June 2016). The analysis focuses on five major dimensions from a qualitative perspective: subjects and the promoting institution, methodology, resources, type of …

It really is the best tool for anyone but the education tools, such as class notebook, make it an absolute must for teachers.

http://www.time4teaching.com/?page_id=144…

Secondary school pupils are not keen on digital fitness trackers being used in physical education, according to our latest research. Wearing a Fitbit for eight weeks reduced pupils’ motivation to be physically active and made some pupils feel fat.

https://theconversation.com/young-people-oppose-fitbits-in-schools-84311…