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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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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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Videos: Why, How, Options

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Rather than check out of the world, viewers willingly dig deeply into the topic in a way that can’t happen from a textbook or lecture. Once you accept the reality that learning can take place outside of a textbook, reading, or notetaking, it’s not hard to see the great value of videos.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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As we look ahead, it’s important that players in the education industry create products and tools that are accessible regardless of their abilities or disabilities and have equal opportunities to learn and participate in educational activities. I see that continuing in the future.

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Everything you need to know about AI in education

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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. AI transforms textbooks into interactive study guides. New AI technologies can be used directly by publishers to auto-convert textbooks into engaging video lessons.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

As we look ahead, it’s important that players in the education industry create products and tools that are accessible regardless of their abilities or disabilities and have equal opportunities to learn and participate in educational activities. I see that continuing in the future.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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