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WASHINGTON, July 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard today announced the release of an enhanced, cloud-based version of CourseSites, the company’s free course delivery option for individual instructors. The new and improved platform will provide both learners and educators with a more modern, intuitive and engaging user interface through Blackboard’s Ultra experience. In addition, users will be […]
This qualitative case study addresses the need for pedagogical approaches to working with open educational resources (OER). Drawing on a mix of historical thinking heuristics and case analysis approaches, a blended pedagogical strategy and primary source database were designed to build student understanding of historical records with transfer of knowledge to related, contemporary problems. Thirty-seven […]
On June 25th, just a tad late, Moodle Mobile 3.5 was released. New features, from GDPR compliance to visual layout and responsiveness enhancements; 7 critical bugs fixed and dozens of issues addressed make the latest upgrade Moodle’s most ambitious mobile play yet. On the app stores for Android and iOS, the app will no longer […]
The company’s new head of AI and personalized learning sees an opportunity to create enhanced ways of evaluating students’ work. edscoop
Open educational resources (OER) can be an effective tool in lowering student textbook expenses and bringing current material into the classroom, but come with many barriers for faculty related to time, expertise, motivation, standardized testing requirements, and subject matter differences. Given the number of potential challenges and problems with using OER, school administrators with distance […]
Classroom environments that use digital tools and active learning get a lot of attention these days. But discussion tends to lack nuance. An educator might implement a new pedagogy and measure learning outcomes, grades, engagement, or some other ‘across-the-board’ metric. But how does video-based active learning work for students from different socioeconomic backgrounds? With different […]
The tool, powered by LearnPlatform, will allow ISTE members and other educators to share their experiences with over 5,000 types of edtech. edscoop
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS) has selected Portfolium to provide it’s ePortfolio platform to 67,000+ students in an effort to support secondary school student success, as well as a digital badging initiative directed at assessing faculty development among it’s 4,500+ educators. Market Insider
Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical devices that data scientists and IT pros can use to run simulations before actual devices are built and deployed. They are also changing how technologies such as IoT, AI and analytics are optimized. Network World
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard is enhancing the student ID card experience with the ability to add a student ID to Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch. With Blackboard Mobile Credentials, student credentials in Apple Wallet offer secure access to facilities, residence halls and more, as well as payments for dining, laundry, vending and retail, […]
