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April 5, 2017

 
 
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1. How to make sure your university’s online content is accessible to all
via eCampus News
Despite advancements in online learning technologies and platforms, accommodations to make these technologies accessible to students and faculty with disabilities are not keeping pace.
Why This Matters: How does your institution insure that online learning content is accessible to all students? eCampus News shares considerations your should keep in mind.
 
2. The Hidden Costs of Active Learning
via Campus Technology
I am an active learning college instructor and I'm tired. I don't mean end-of-the-semester and need-some-sleep tired. I mean really, weary, bone-deep tired.
Why This Matters: As pedagogies shift to embrace more active, personalized models, the workload of faculty members increases exponentially. With this new normal becoming mainstream, the possibility of faculty burnout could prove to be a major roadblock. This underscores the importance of solid faculty support.
 
3. Boosting Student Engagement through Mobile Technology
via The EvoLLLution
The mobile-first generation is here. According to Pew Research, 85 percent of students own smartphones and they’re spending eight to 10 hours on those devices every day. Incoming traditional-age students don’t know a world without the internet, tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices, and like their non-traditional counterparts, they have high expectations.
Why This Matters: Students today are constantly interacting with their mobile devices, so why not bring learning content to the technologies they can’t put down? Mobile learning can do wonders for student engagement.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
4. One University's Approach to Innovation: ‘You Have to Go Slow to Go Fast’ (EdSurge)
5. Searching for the EdTech Ideological Middle (Inside Higher Ed)
6. Cyber-criminals share millions of stolen higher-education email credentials (EdScoop)
7. The road to real results for online learning in developing countries (Devex)
8. The Global Search for Education: How Teachers Are Learning in New York (The Huffington Post)
9. Applying Gamification to Live Training (LearnDash)
10. Virtual Schools Market in North America 2017-2021 - New Market Report (Digital Journal)
 
 
 
  Blog Quote Of The Day
 
 
 
'Technology-Enhanced Retention' and Other Ed-Tech Interventions
"What do we lose, for example, if we more heavily surveil students? What do we lose when we more heavily surveil faculty? The goal with technology-enhanced efforts, I fear, is compliance not compassion and not curiosity. So sure, some “quantitative metrics” might tick upward. But at what cost? And at what cost to whom?" —Audrey Watters, Hack Education
 
 
 
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"data is not the new oil, it is the new light" - @chutneyboy at #RDAPlenary
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
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