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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Then assess whether educational technology can be part of the solution. The list goes on.

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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Coding has helped students get hooked on computer science in the elementary and middle levels and has helped self-motivated students build apps for their high schools. My high hope: I’m hoping to see coding break out of those technology class molds so students can invent to learn in all of their classes. Where we are: Since the U.S.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023).

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?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

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It jumpstarted a moment in research for us. What’s your concern or skepticism over motivations and outcomes there? For institutions, the people who control the purse strings to take them seriously, absolutely. I will say the other good thing that I think came out of MOOCs. Easy peasy, we’ve got something for that.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

Faculty Focus

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023).

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention. Moving Educational Research Forward.