Studies of the effectiveness of video in formal learning environments have yielded some confusing ideas, namely that content acquired via video consumption doesn’t easily transfer to the medium of text (Fisch 2002; Koran, Snow & McDonald 1971). This doesn’t mean students aren’t learning from the video (or the text for that matter), but it rather suggests [...] The post 40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

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Institutions of higher education aggregate and warehouse many terabytes of student data, aiding routine functions including degree conferral, financial aid eligibility, online course management, and more. In recent years, scholars of teaching and learning have begun exploring new ways to utilize these "big data" resources, extracting information that might directly contribute to the institution’s educational [...] The post Know Thy Students: Providing Aggregate Student Data to Instructors appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Joomla 3.4 has thus brought many improvements by introducing new features, offering various benefits to users as well as developers. Other than these, there are many undiscovered benefits too, which you will come across while using this new version. Source: blog.semaphore-software.com See on Scoop.it - Just Joomla! The post The New Joomla 3.4 has Come Out with Some Noteworthy Features!! appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

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For many years, Moodle system has been the most preferred learning system for most learners, administrators, educators and institutions. It’s well customized designs makes it a great choice for making educational courses and settings. If you are new to Moodle systems, it’s good to learn the architectural design of this powerful web application. Moodle comprises [...] The post Extensive Moodle System Architecture Overview appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The new IT architecture also requires that tools be able to "work together" to provide better information (analytics) to both faculty and students on their progress and to administrators on their usage. This may mean that data provided by apps is easily made available to an analysis service or even that one tool provides information [...] The post A New Architecture for Learning appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

IT’S OPEN! IT’S FREE! IT’S ONLINE! IT’S READY! For the last two weeks I have been frantically re-editing my online open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age.’ I am relieved and pleased to announce that the book is now finished - or at least as finished as an open online textbook will be, as it’s possible, [...] The post Open Textbook ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ now ready and available | Tony Bates appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

In moving Humboldt Elementary to a more data-driven model, one of the first challenges that former principal Cole Young faced was figuring out how to use the data, how to share it, and how to get everyone on the same page with the numbers. The school didn’t have a culture of data, and creating one [...] The post Making Student Data Part of the Conversation appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

In data mining and data analytics, tools and techniques once confined to research laboratories are being adopted by forward-looking industries to improve decision making. Higher education institutions are beginning to use analytics for improving the services they provide and for increasing student grades and retention. The U.S. Department of Education’s National Education Technology Plan, as [...] The post Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics appeared first on Patric Lougheed.