How to Use Augmented Reality in Education

by Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Pokémon Go did two things for society; introduced us to the capabilities of augmented reality (AR) and showed us how much adults enjoyed catching virtual animals. Augmented reality in the education sector is growing, and as it does, it is important to look how the potential of AR can be harnessed in the classroom. While AR is primarily focused in the gaming industry (at the moment) statistics show that consumers value AR products 33% higher than non-augmented reality products and that students are naturally entranced by how AR can change the world around them. However, while it may be the new “it” technology, educators need to understand how they can incorporate AR into their classrooms if it is to be used to its full potential.

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The secret behind why Coursera courses are becoming a hit with Indians

by ANUSHREE SINGH, Business Insider India

Nearly two years after Coursera released a survey reporting widespread career and educational impact of online courses for Indians, it has now come out with ‘2017 Learner Outcomes Survey’ which shows its online learners are reporting even greater benefits than before. 89% of Indian learners among working professionals and job seekers (“career builders”), reported career benefits compared to 84% globally, 84% in the US and 86% in the UK. In India, 46% of career builders reported to have got better in their jobs, and 39% reported to have improved their candidacy for a new job.

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AP English literature class invokes the Bard to win online contest

by Boothbay Register

Boothbay Region High School students in Mark Gorey’s AP English Literature class put together a hilarious YouTube video that earned them first place in their division in a contest on the online website, Meridian Stories. Their entry fell under the Vocabulary Vine Challenge category. Gorey’s students were tasked with creating a one-minute video made up of six-second clips, or “vines” created to help students expand their vocabulary. They chose words from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Student actor Jacob Leonard, representing the Bard, was shown in costume cavorting through a series of modern-day scenes sharing his vast knowledge of seldom used or obscure words with 21st century actors.

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Youth Digital Gives Kids the Tools to Create

by Robin White Goode, Black Enterprise

Youth Digital provides online computer courses that teach kids how to be digital creators and innovators. It also offers summer camps to those lucky enough to live near one of its 21 camp locations. But the founder of Youth Digital, Justin Richards, has a goal of reaching kids who may not have access to a cool camp like his. Hence the online courses, which are engaging youngsters in more than 100 countries. A lot of middle schools and high schools are still underserved. That’s a gap we’re trying to fill with the online courses, because we want to reach those kids. We want them to be able to become creators too. Our camps partner with nonprofits that already have existing relationships with those communities. We’re still figuring out the online piece. We want to partner with nonprofits and enable them to deliver this content to kids whose lives they’re already touching.

http://www.blackenterprise.com/education/youth-digital-gives-kids-the-tools-to-create/

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Austrade sets target of 110 million MOOC students for Australia by 2025

by Tim Dodd, AFR

International Education Minister Richard Colbeck will launch on Saturday a radical plan for Australia to use online technology to grab 10 per cent of the world market in education by 2025, amounting to an astonishing 110 million students. Senator Colbeck said the strategy, developed by Austrade, was achievable. “Why not aim high? We sit in a rapidly developing area of the globe and they all recognise the quality of our [education] framework,” he said. International education is already Australia’s third largest export industry, worth nearly $19 billion a year.

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This Is Your Brain on Podcasts

By BENEDICT CAREY, NY Times

Storytelling happened, and now scientists have mapped the experience of listening to podcasts, specifically “The Moth Radio Hour,” using a scanner to track brain activity. In a paper published Wednesday by the journal Nature, a research team from the University of California, Berkeley, laid out a detailed map of the brain as it absorbed and responded to a story. Widely dispersed sensory, emotional and memory networks were humming, across both hemispheres of the brain; no story was “contained” in any one part of the brain, as some textbooks have suggested.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/science/this-is-your-brain-on-podcasts.html

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McDonalds Celebrates First Employee Graduate of Cengage Learning’s Career Online High School

by IT Business Net

Juan Garcia today was recognized as the first McDonald’s graduate of Cengage Learning’s Career Online High School (COHS), a unique education program being offered to qualifying employees working in company-owned and franchise-owned restaurants. A graduation ceremony honoring the achievement was held at McDonald’s during a district manager’s meeting. Through its partnership with Cengage Learning, up to 1,000 employees of McDonald’s or its independent franchisees are expected to complete an elective course and move on to complete the entire Cengage Learning COHS diploma program. “We are so proud of Juan and his achievement, which marks the first of many celebrations to come here at McDonald’s,” said Rob Lauber, Chief Learning Officer at McDonald’s. “As part of our Archways to Opportunity education strategy, we are pleased to be working with Cengage Learning’s Career Online High School to make a high school diploma possible for our people — along with our other robust education and life skills building opportunities.”

http://www.itbusinessnet.com/article/McDonalds-Celebrates-First-Employee-Graduate-of-Cengage-Learnings-Career-Online-High-School-3875230

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Final 28 Corinthian Colleges to close

By Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Corinthian Colleges Inc. will close its remaining campuses in California, Arizona, New York, Hawaii, and Arizona, effective today, on the heels of fines levied against it by the U.S. Department of Education. After already shuttering or selling nearly a hundred campuses last year, the for-profit college chain had 28 remaining under Heald, Everest, and WyoTech names. The Associated Press reports that a statement from Corinthian issued Sunday said the company would help current students continue their educations elsewhere.

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Idaho has room to improve its stagnated online education

By PG Veer, Watchdog Arena

Technology has “creeped in” everywhere these days, including the classroom. To many this is a good thing, because breaking technological barriers means that education is more accessible and also personalized.The Foundation for Excellence in Education, founded by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in 2010, aims at showing our politicians the benefits of such a transformation because “access to high-quality, customized learning experiences should be available to all students, unbounded by geography or artificial policy constraints,” as they state in their just-released report, which looks at 2014. This year, Idaho ranks 23rd, tied with New Mexico and Arkansas, at the lower end of the C grading. While not stellar, the classification is an improvement from last year.

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How Online Classrooms Are Adapting To The Mobile Generation

By Joseph, Edudemic

Education is a crucial component to success in the modern world. With the ever-progressing forms of communication and technology, we have seen an explosion of online tools and options that have become available to the mobile and tech savvy generation of today. In the past, teachers used tools from the environment to demonstrate concepts that were difficult for students to fully comprehend. A tuning fork, for example, illustrated how vibrations create sound. Today, teachers have more refined resources they can appeal to in order to demonstrate concepts that are extremely difficult to understand. For example, digital simulations are used to model complex systems: weather patterns, chemical bonding, Fluid mechanics, and other complicated concepts — particularly those which unfold over time or through a convoluted series of reactions.

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Nontraditional schools: Plenty of Alternatives: Online learning in higher education

by Amy Knapp, Inde Online

“Students are definitely interested in more online classes,” said Diane Walker, director of Student Services for Kent State University at Stark. Online offerings make it easier for students to take advantage of classes offered at other Kent State campuses, she said. “If you are a student at Kent State Stark, you can take courses at any campus,” she said. “You might be taking six courses and they could be on any campus but you don’t have to leave your computer.” Walker said she sees all types of students taking advantage of online offerings. “You have to be self-motivated since there isn’t a requirement to come to class,” she said. “That could be a barrier to succeed. It really depends on a student’s learning style.”

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Predicting success and failure with student analytics

By Cynthia Karena, Kiama Lake (AU) Independent Times

Increasing digitisation of student records means predictive analytics is expected to transform teaching and become a key tool in learning more about students. Predictive analytics is a process in which data collected about the student – typically attendance, subjects taken, assessment – is used to understand learning patterns, identify skill gaps, predict performance and identify learning opportunities. Teachers and administrators have always analysed student data, but as more student records become digitised – for example, using a consistent online marking system school-wide – there are more opportunities for analysis. Digitised data is also quicker and easier to analyse.

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