Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

By Mark Engstrom, edSurge

Conventional syllabi are developed from the perspective of the teacher—designed to present what he or she plans to include in a course. I wanted to develop an alternative version that looked through the lens of the student, and my vision was to tailor each one to reflect what a particular learner would be doing every step of the way throughout the course. This was not simply a more visually appealing version of a classic syllabus, it was a radical overhaul of the student experience with the primary goal of changing their perception of their role as a learner. This drastic class redesign demanded that I ask myself some big questions: what content was required, what elements of learning could students control and what traditional and new measures I could use to gauge progress? Almost every question led to another

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-09-10-redesigning-the-syllabus-to-reflect-the-learning-journey

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How College Campuses Can Lead in Fighting Climate Change

by Lara Ettenson, NRDC

 

As bastions of knowledge, progress, and innovation, it’s not surprising that colleges are often at the forefront of the battle against climate change, striving to implement energy efficiency, clean energy, and sustainability curricula and programs. When college campuses engage in the green movement, they not only reduce energy waste and increase utility bill savings, they also invest in the future by encouraging their students to become leaders and activists with a genuine interest and concern for the world. More than 90 colleges across the country have distinguished themselves as leaders against climate change, pledging to become carbon-neutral in three years.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/lara-ettenson/how-college-campuses-can-lead-fighting-climate-change

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10 WAYS TO USE GOOGLE IN YOUR CLASSROOM

BY MATTHEW LYNCH, tech Edvocate

If all you’ve ever used Google for is email and web searches, there’s a whole world in which you’re missing out. That world is the Google Suite, consisting of a cloud computing compendium that puts all of your instructional tools in one easily accessed location. So what can you do with Google in your classroom? As it turns out, Google offers a lot.

http://www.thetechedvocate.org/10-ways-use-google-classroom/

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5 ways edu-tech is changing your learning experience

by J Vignesh & Varsha Bansal, Economic Times

Online courses and learning through mobile apps are gaining more acceptances among the student community. This is fuelling further development of data-driven education technologies, triggering fundamental changes in how school and college students as well as professionals seeking new skills are learning. Last week, the foundation started by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan co-led a $50-million investment in the Bengaluru-based startup Byju’s app. It has been downloaded by about 5.5 million students in more than 1,400 cities and towns. Take a look at how edu-tech is changing the learning experience of students.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/tech-life/five-ways-mobile-and-online-can-change-your-learning-experience/5-ways-edu-tech-is-changing-your-learning-experience/slideshow/54359457.cms

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The Growth of Online Video-Based Learning

Len Calderone, HomeToys

The demand for video-based learning is experiencing tremendous growth in the recent times. Video-based learning may soon become the most sought after educational process from the corporate level to the academic environment, mainly because of the growth of smartphones and tablets. The reason that we are seeing a growing trend in video-based learning is largely due to the increased strength of social media proliferation and social blogging in the everyday life of a student, along with mobile learning. The use of written material in education has become boring to today’s digital users. Neurological studies have proven that memories are reinforced when an emotion was attached to memory. The quality of learning (comprehension and understanding) is limited until our multiple senses are involved.

http://www.hometoys.com/article/2016/09/the-growth-of-online-video-based-learning-/35083

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High school juniors can apply for aerospace class

by Times-News

Idaho high school juniors can apply to take an aerospace class this spring, with the chance to visit the NASA Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, Calif. Registration will be open through Nov. 18. The Idaho Science and Aerospace Scholars program is offered through a cooperation between the Idaho Department of Education and NASA. Once accepted into the program, students will sign up for an online class offered through the Idaho Digital Learning Academy by going to their IDLA school site coordinator. The class will be offered from January through May and students will receive one science elective credit for completing the class.

http://magicvalley.com/news/local/education/high-school-juniors-can-apply-for-aerospace-class/article_c0aa6894-5d45-5023-b1ab-871041245f64.html

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Texas’ big strides in preparing students for college math

By Lindsay Fitzpatrick, eSchool News

A new math course is boosting collaboration and learning and may be key to getting more students college ready. In Texas, 51% of two-year and 12 percent of four-year students required remediation upon entry to college.i Complete College America found that, of two year college students who took developmental classes, only 5.8% earned a degree in three years. As an effort to address these challenges, in 2013 Texas passed House Bill 5, an innovative education legislation that included a College Prep Mathematics course as one means to increase the number of college-ready students. This course provides high school seniors who are still struggling with mathematics concepts needed for college an opportunity to complete their preparation for college mathematics.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/09/18/texas-college-math-185/

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Groups partner on spiraled technology skills integrated curriculum

by eSchool News

A new approach helps districts achieve continuity in teaching coding, programming and computer sciencecurriculum. Imparting 21st century skills means starting young learners with a proper foundation and thoughtfully advancing students with age-appropriate offerings at each grade and level. For its new 2015-2016 portfolio of curriculum solutions, Sunburst has been working with three partners–StudioWeb, Tynker and Wonder Workshop–that are passionate about introducing programming, coding and computer science to students spanning K-12.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/09/18/integrated-curriculum-986/

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Meet The Must-Have College Accessory: Ringly

by Jennifer Bett Communications

It’s back to school time, and there’s one must-have accessory for college students – Ringly! Ringly is a stylish ring that connects to your phone so you can stay connected while in class. Receive messages and notifications from social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder, while your phone is safe and secure in your bag. Your professor will never know! How exactly does Ringly work? Ringly fuses jewelry and technology. The brand believes technology can be more discreetly intertwined into our lives. The ring notifies you about phone calls, text messages, emails, applications, Twitter, Facebook, meeting updates, and more through vibration and light. Simply download the app and connect your ring. Ringly is compatible with both iOS and Android phones. Rings retail from $195 to $260.

http://www.examiner.com/article/meet-the-must-have-college-accessory-ringly

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Report: 4 in 10 Wristworn Devices Will Be Smartwatches by 2016

By Joshua Bolkan, Campus Technology

Four out of every 10 devices worn on the wrist will be smartwatches by 2016, according to a new report from market research firm Gartner. That prediction follows a swell in the smartwatches available to consumers as the number of companies offering the devices has increased from just two a year ago to seven with a device either currently on the market or about to ship.

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From online dating to driverless cars, machine learning is everywhere

by Nicola Davis, The Observer

With machine learning behind myriad technologies, from online dating to driverless cars, we ask expert Dr Michael Osborne from the University of Oxford to give us the lowdown. Artificial intelligence is really the goal of trying to develop algorithms that can learn and act. Older AI research ran up against this difficulty that people didn’t really know what intelligence was. Machine learning is a much more modern approach to solving the AI problem where we are coming from the bottom up rather than top down, so we are saying, well, let’s define these really crisp, well-defined, sub-problems, like classifying a handwritten digit as being either a one or two, and then use novel techniques within statistics and optimisation to create an algorithm that can improve its performance over time.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/18/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence

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How to Craft Effective Learning Objectives for an E-learning Course?

by Neha Goel, eLearning Design

We talk lot about creating interesting and engaging eLearning courses, but do we ever talk about how the course would be relevant to the learners taking it? This is where the necessity of the learning objectives is felt. If the learners don’t find the course relevant, it becomes hard for the instructional designers to keep them motivated. Hence, to overcome this, you need to tell the learners in the beginning of the course itself what they would learn after completing the course and set clear learning objectives.

http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-design/crafting-effective-learning-objectives-for-elearning

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