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Miro is an excellent whiteboard platform to boost your collaborative team work. You can use it to host online meetings, run collective brainstorming sessions, and organize remote workshops. Miro’s intuitive canvas offers a wide variety of features to help you …

A newly released Moodle plugin, “Debate”, allows learners to take sides in a discussion and actively express their opinions.

https://moodle.com/news/online-classroom-debate-moodle-plugin/…

Reinforcement learning is the branch of artificial intelligence that has become renowned for mastering board and video games. Reinforcement learning models seek to maximize rewards. In the case of online ads, the RL model will try to find the ad …

Teachers spend countless hours correcting student work because feedback is critical to students’ learning process. Regrettably, an important portion of such feedback is not understood or deemed irrelevant by students, or worse yet, left unread. How can we get students …

COVID-19 has been extraordinarily challenging for universities and students, and the disruption will likely persist beyond the rollout of a vaccine.  Here are five changes made to higher education that it would be valuable to continue with after COVID-19.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/covid-19-pandemic-higher-education-online-resources-students-lecturers-learning-teaching/…

Aaron Ansuini, a student at Concordia University in Montreal., was surprised to find out that the professor listed on his syllabus and featured in his video lectures passed away in 2019.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-02-09-is-it-still-teaching-when-the-professor-is-dead…

See how to use the following free tools to create short audio recordings: Vocaroo, Online Voice Recorder, and Twisted Wave. 

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/02/three-easy-ways-for-students-to-make.html…

With the technology now available, it’s clear that simply broadcasting pre-recorded lectures is no longer an option for forward-thinking universities.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/16/the-future-of-online-learning-the-long-term-trends-accelerated-by-covid-19…

Feedback is often a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. Nevertheless, feedback offered throughout the duration of the course (formative feedback), is a crucial element in the learning process. Together with the feedback given at the end of the course (summative feedback), …

The Windows desktop isn’t meant to be a folder for your files. Here are some of the better options to store your files.

https://www.muo.com/tag/3-better-ways-store-files-desktop…

Whiteboard.chat allows teachers to create whiteboards for their students. Teachers can then remotely monitor the whiteboards to see what their students are doing on those whiteboards. It’s great for doing things like asking students to solve a math problem and …

Two-stage assessment is an approach in which students first answer questions individually (Stage 1) and then discuss them in teams prior to resubmitting their answers (Stage 2). The student’s grade is determined by a combination of the scores at both …

For decades, artificial intelligence has been depicted as a sinister force in science fiction. Think of HAL-9000, the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series. But while applications of AI and machine learning are indeed sophisticated and carry …

Looking for the cheapest cloud storage possible? We show you the best budget cloud storage for 100GB, 1TB, and other tiers.

https://www.muo.com/tag/cheapest-cloud-storage…

Discover how data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence are shaping the future and the differences between each discipline.

https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/differences-data-analytics-machine-learning-ai…