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MAY 15, 2023

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2022

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

It was an unusually theatrical moment for a gathering to announce the release of software tools to help professors improve their teaching. But the organizers were playfully acknowledging the size of their project’s ambition—which they hope will spark a more data-driven and experimental approach to teaching at colleges around the country.

Learning 164

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. But at religious institutions, adapting open materials for a faith-based curriculum can be trickier.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Just before professor Barry Spieler enters the classroom at Montgomery College to teach an introductory statistics course, he looks at a data dashboard and gets a sinking feeling. The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. The mission?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

to connect and share data, the open-source data standard gives educators a clearer picture of students and their learning needs. And the reason why this is obviously very important is because now we know how an individual student is learning, how maybe a cohort of students is learning.

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