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Tips to increase motivation in e-learning

Keeping your classes engaged and motivated is a big achievement. However, not all teachers excel at this part. Most of them find it difficult to interact with their online classes in such a way as to ...

How educators can make use of edtech into the classroom

A version of this post was originally published on August 6, 2019 in Education HQ Australia. The success of educators nowadays is based on the interrelation between mastering their subject matter, ped...

AR isn’t a fad in education – it’s the future!

More than just a fad technology that was used for capturing Pokemon in 2016, augmented reality (or AR) is creating incredible possibilities across numerous industries – not least in education. It’s of...

How educators can use edtech to teach students essential real-life skills

Technology in the classroom continues to transform the way that teachers teach and students learn. Simple techniques such as incorporating videos into learning or making lectures available online are ...

Top 10 reasons to take immersive learning into your classroom

Immersive learning is considered the future of education, and research already backs this up. The main thing that introduces a game-changing aspect in the use of immersive learning is that of incorpor...

Teaching students financial literacy with education technology

One in five 15-year-olds in the U.S. lack basic financial literacy, U.S. News reports. And although children begin forming their attitudes towards money as young as the age of six, most parents and sc...

7 digital portfolio guidelines for outstanding learning performance

More and more schools strive to move away from standardized educational models in favor of student-centered approaches. It is no secret that teachers also need better ways to evaluate student learning...

6 Examples of classroom tech that improves education

This post has been updated on April 9, 2020. Keeping up with classroom technology can seem a daunting task for teachers. They have students to teach, papers to grade, and meetings to attend — and that...

Is edtech a win-win solution for students and educators?

This post was originally published on May 6th, 2019, in eSchoolMedia. The purpose of any educational institution is to prepare students to become successful adults in the future. Success may mean diff...

How ed-tech can enhance collaborative learning in the classroom

Ever since the classroom was invented educators have been using the latest technologies to enhance the learning process and support students in achieving the best academic outcomes. If at first classr...

Meeting the needs of introverted students with e-learning

Introversion can be easily misunderstood, especially in social settings that favor the extrovert ideal. Schools are a great example of such a setting, with group papers, oral presentations and partici...

INTERVIEW: Digital learning trends that are reshaping edtech

Graham Glass, CEO of CYPHER LEARNING, participated to a live event for Digital Learning Day 2019. The event was hosted by Phill Bevan, Community Advisor at VETR, a digital learning community for the A...

Edtech that "Sparks Joy"

Marie Kondo is upon us, like a modern-day Mary Poppins she is sweeping our lives clean of clutter with Zen-like élan. While I have not read Marie’s book, and have so far avoided the guilty pleasure of...

3 Teachers that are crushing assessments with ed-tech

Assessments are the unloved orphan of schooling — no-one likes them. They are typically named as one of the most time-consuming activities for teachers, and debates continue on how effective current s...

The current ways m-learning is making online education better

A version of this post was originally published in ICT & Computing in Education, on January 18, 2019. Even though many people accuse the education system of being stuck in the past and resistant to ch...

Edtech definitions every teacher should know: Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of our edtech terminology post — where we hope to give you a relatively simple roadmap to help navigate the thickets of education technology buzzwords and phrases that tend to appear...

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