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The latest release of Moodle LMS, the open source learning management system used by hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, enhances the online learning experience for both educators and learners, including a new Accessibility checker toolkit and a new activity …

With Open Educational Resources (OER) teachers have free access to high-quality educational resources and open licenses to prepare, enhance, or supplement their teaching practice. A typology of OER users has been developed with five types of OER users. Implications for …

Come and join our annual Moodle Day at Dawson. The workshops will take place online through Zoom on May 28th, from 9 – 11:45 am. For more information and to register, please click on the link below:

https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/information-systems-and-technology/moodle-day-2021/…

Below are 50 ideas for a new education. Note, most of these are about education as a system rather than learning itself, but that’s okay. It’s often the infrastructure of learning that obscures anyway. Few of them may work; even …

More than half of teachers now offer students more flexibility in how they choose to complete assignments, more opportunities to revise and re-submit their work, and more ways to participate non-verbally in class discussions, according to a nationally representative survey …

A new report published Tuesday by the tech-focused nonprofit Me2B Alliance found the majority of school utility apps were sharing some amount of student data with third-party marketing companies.

https://gizmodo.com/60-of-school-apps-are-sharing-your-kids-data-with-thir-1846819024…

Microsoft is making Webinars in Teams generally available and is bringing new presentation options to Teams via Presenter Mode.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-starts-rolling-out-its-webinars-feature-in-teams/…

Technology in Education has been among us for a long while, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, technology-based teaching took a sprint. But let’s face it, it has not always been for the better. This article delves into the pros …

AI plays a unique role in helping to facilitate engaging learning methods that teach students through experience and critical thinking.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2021/05/05/why-ai-is-the-future-of-socratic-learning-methods/…

With many students at home, and with a mass of websites offering services to do their homework, schools have seen a surge in academic dishonesty.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cheating-at-school-is-easier-than-everand-its-rampant-11620828004

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“We think that virtual reality can play a more important role in classrooms and how we approach teaching STEM courses,” said Batra. “Moreover, low-cost, virtual reality cardboard viewers are a feasible and a scalable way to capture students’ attention.”

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-virtual-reality-effective-tool-classrooms.html…

Putting students in contact with their future work environment is, for them, as formative as it is motivating. In a course that I teach in the Paramedic Care Program, I had the exceptional collaboration of 4 paramedics who agreed to …

We’ve picked out seven specific trends that we’ve seen change or accelerate during the recent lockdown, and that we think you should watch out for over the next 12-24 months. So here’s our list of seven post-pandemic trends to look …

The universities best equipped with digital infrastructure and savvy human resources will emerge as the new leaders − no matter where they are, says Kwang Hyung Lee.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/educational-metaverse-coming…

The main purpose of this article is to present and reflect on the applications of the book Teaching in a Digital Age in two educational settings in Iran and Austria and the main focus is on the application of the …