The success of learning analytics rests on how students understand and use them. We asked pre-service teachers how they would see LA supporting their studies in higher education. Learn more about the four roles that we identified from students’ conversations!
This session was led by Juan Pablo Sarmiento and introduces learning analytics researchers and practitioners to a collection of tools that can be used to scaffold the effective and authentic participation of stakeholders in the design, implementation and evaluation of Learning Analytics systems.
There’s no question that the shift to remote and flexible learning has highlighted the importance of technology in education, but at the same time, this shift has also complicated some key aspects of a teacher’s job.
Presentation from Marko Teräs at the 28th ICDE World Conference on Online Learning of a national-level learning analytics research and development project funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. Student and teacher needs analysis results for LA pilot development and for policy recommendations.
Research from interactionist second language acquisition and sociocultural theoretical perspectives shows that referential questions are important for learning, but also, that they can be difficult for English language learners (ELLs) to understand and produce answers to. By integrating analytical tools from both traditions, this study examined the scaffolding functions of a fifth grade teacher's talk. The study found that the teacher utilized various communicative moves to engage ELLs in referential questions. Examples illustrating these communicative moves and their scaffolding functions are provided. Implications from these findings for teacher education are discussed
Looking at how teaching and learning needs to become more advance in terms of technology. We need to be addressing and creating our lessons using the technology that is readily available to us and that our students are using on a regular basis.
It is a personal learning network in twitter. Teachers can learn from each other in this platform. There are lots of resources. Teachers can follow others, read the tweets, and learn from other teachers. you can use educational hashtags to direct your feeds to other people.
There are interactive math games for ages from 5-12. Bright colors, animations, and effects made the website more attractive for especially young children.
Wiki is for anyone in education including teachers, students, and parents. The teachers can create their wiki pages and assign home work to the students, create discussions to get the students opinion. Students and teachers can add and edit the pages. It is a wonderful way to create student centered collaborative learning environment.
In less than a week two billionaires have joined the anti-teacher "Billionaires Club": a group of ultra-wealthy individuals hell-bent on destroying public education and teachers’ unions. The newest members of the club are Oprah Winfrey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg.
interactive demonstrations of Conducting Electronic Searches; useful both for the information contained and as a demo of web design and writing instructional media in a library context; the larger site is a resource for writers.
Introduction to web2.0 for educators: 'The main objectives of the publication are first to inspire teachers to want to try some of these "new tools" for themselves and with their classes, and then to provide practical advice and guidance on how to do so.'
very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes
I want to make a very important announcement for the Moodle dev community. An extensible 3D Web is ready for interoperability with Moodle. There are dozens of weighty teaching applications that instantly come to mind when you mashup a 3D building envir
I want to make a very important announcement for the Moodle dev community. An extensible 3D Web is ready for interoperability with Moodle. There are dozens of weighty teaching applications that instantly come to mind when you mashup a 3D building envir
Don’t kid yourself. Online games, once the province of the young, could soon change the way your association delivers education and certification programs. In this interview, two virtual characters explore the potential of gaming for associations...Or!
Don’t kid yourself. Online games, once the province of the young, could soon change the way your association delivers education and certification programs. In this interview, two virtual characters explore the potential of gaming for associations...Or!
A TRADITIONAL WEST AFRICAN PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE BRINGING the SPIRIT of WEST AFRICAN MUSIC and DANCE to VERMONT and NEW ENGLAND! We are 16+ talented artists who share traditional rhythms and dances from Guinea, Senegal & Mali (West Africa). Jeh Kulu featu
A TRADITIONAL WEST AFRICAN PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE BRINGING the SPIRIT of WEST AFRICAN MUSIC and DANCE to VERMONT and NEW ENGLAND! We are 16+ talented artists who share traditional rhythms and dances from Guinea, Senegal & Mali (West Africa). Jeh Kulu featu
useful summary by George Siemens of his ideas from new book; educators need to rethink all ideas about knowledge, education, and learning for young people growing up in the Internet era
new search engine that also has useful tutorial on how to search and explanations of all the major search engines; good for college students to learn how to use Internet most effectively
Oct 06, review of software potentially useful to students and teachers; overview useful for folks interested in thinking about Internet and education in new ways
"reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best products and services"; valuable because of plethora of new Web 2.0 software; explanation of how to use it gives clues as to if you would want to try new software.
blog entries around a specific set of questions about teaching in higher education; collected and commented on at regular intervals by a "host" blogger
The Chicago History Project (CHP) is a partnership between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Historical Society, Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, Chicago Metro History Education Center, the Newberry Library, and the University of Illinoi