Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Today during the CampusInsight Annual Users Conference, Campus Management Corp. and Burning Glass Technologies announced their strategic partnership to deliver job market analytics that empower educators and students to make data-driven career decisions. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Center for Educational Measurement at Excelsior College and Cengage, an education and technology company, have partnered to launch CourXam, a personalized, portable, and mobile platform for students who are looking for a new way to earn college credit. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Traditional barriers between physical and virtual learning and research must be erased to support a next-generation learning environment. More...
By Gilbert Nakweya. Mobile learning opens the possibility of thousands of displaced people in Africa having the chance not only to empower themselves individually, but to bring positive change and development to those societies among which they find refuge. More...
Yik Yak, the once-popular anonymous messaging app, will shut down in the coming weeks, its developers announced Friday. The app was once at the center of several campus controversies, but a series of decisions to limit completely anonymous posting drove many users away. The company behind Yik Yak, once valued at between $300-400 million, in February announced a new group messaging app. More...
Digital technology depends on energy, and that energy depends on minerals. Take cobalt, for instance. Use of this ferromagnetic metal can be traced back to Ancient Egypt when it was used to taint ceramics. Today cobalt is an integral part of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that go into smartphones, lap tops and electric vehicles. More...
Par Alexandre Roberge. L’interactivité fait souvent partie du quotidien. L’informatique présente jusque dans nos poches nous permet d'interagir à volonté avec une application ou une autre. Conséquemment, dans un univers stimulant, il n’est pas toujours simple de se poser tranquille devant des situations plus passives comme un cours magistral en classe. Voir l'article...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Talk during Educon2017 by Dragan Gasevic known for his award-winning work of his team on the LOCO-Analytics software is considered one of the pioneering contributions in the growing area of learning analytics. In 2014 he founded ProSolo Technologies Inc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ACNKw7A_04) that develops a software solution for tracking, evaluating, and recognizing competences gained through self-directed learning and social interactions. More...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Kinshuk (http://www.kinshuk.info ) was streamed in live from Austin, Texas. Lately he is also increasingly engagement with industry on EdTech (yes, the bridge between university and industry is tightening).
The learning environment is expanding outside of the classroom environment, so how can we incorporate learning in all these environments. Read more...
By Michael Feldstein. Don’t be put off by a title that reads like click bait; this piece in EdSurge by Julia Freeland Fisher is the real deal. The column looks at the adoption rates of…well…fridges and washing machines. More...
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