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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click.

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

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Cherlendy Louis, a student and TeachTap user in New York City, said, “Instead of getting bored and zoning out using textbooks, TeachTap makes topics so much more entertaining. For example, Albert Einstein can “rap” a physics lesson, but the underlying lesson would be the same as learning it through a textbook. About LearnWith.AI

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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

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As with any distance learning program, teachers at the school level are also reviewing content before they are assigned, similarly to how textbooks are used for instruction.” Change.org petitions have been circulated opposing the use of Acellus in Hawaii Department of Education schools and at Alameda Unified.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

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Everything you need to know about AI in education

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In a structured classroom setting, an educator can only be expected to teach a certain amount of curriculum, and learners can only retain so much information at one time. By simply sharing a link to a textbook or by uploading a PDF, the AI then auto-creates well-designed slides that teachers tweak to use for sleek lesson presentations.