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more on assessment in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=assessment
Posts Tagged ‘LMS learning management systems’
LMS market acceleration
https://philonedtech.com/lms-market-acceleration-an-initial-view-in-north-america/
- UCLA is completing its LMS evaluation and migration plans, moving from Moodle to Canvas;
- SUNY has released its RFP for a systemwide LMS;
- CUNY is doing an LMS evaluation in preparation for its contract end date in 2021;
- Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) is in the final contract stage of its systemwide LMS decision – expect a separate blog post on this one later this fall;
- NYU is moving from Sakai to D2L Brightspace; and
- Texas A&M and several CalState campuses are moving to Canvas.
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more on LMS in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=LMs
Classroom Routines Change
Classroom Routines Must Change. Here’s What Teaching Looks Like Under COVID-19
By Sarah Schwartz August 5, 2020
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/08/06/classroom-routines-have-to-change-heres-what.html
Class cultures built on collaboration or group project work will change.
discuss these priorities and present ideas for adapting common classroom routines for remote or socially distanced settings.
- Frequent, meaningful engagement
- Cognitively demanding work
- Responding to formative assessment
Adapting Common Classroom Routines in an Online (or Socially Distanced) Environment
- Introduce yourself to students at the beginning of the year
- Hold a remote discussion
- Plan a socially distanced art, music, or physical education lesson
- Have students think-pair-share
LMS market
https://philonedtech.com/state-of-higher-ed-lms-market-for-us-and-canada-mid-year-2020-edition/
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more on LMS in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=lms
learning systems in 2020
https://www.lambdasolutions.net/blog/biggest-education-technology-trends-2019
#1: Big Data and Analytics
#2: Gamification
#3: Adaptive Learning
#4: MicroLearning
#5: Content Curation
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more on learning systems in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=learning+systems
Pearson CEO retirement
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-12-18-pearson-ceo-john-fallon-to-retire-in-2020
Digital education assets were not spared, either. That same year, Pearson also sold PowerSchool, one the most widely used student information system in K-12 schools and districts today. (my note: about LMS, including PowerSchool, pls watch this animation: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/12/22/bar-chart-race-lms/)
At the time, Fallon said PowerSchool was “an administrative system rather than a tool for learning, teaching or assessment,” and which did not jibe with Pearson’s transformation strategy.
The company offered a similar reason for selling its U.S. K-12 courseware assets, which Fallon described as “textbook-led” and one that “does not fit in with our digital transformation strategy.”
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more on Pearson in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=pearson
Bar chart race LMS
categories: announcement
In the last few months, the LMS world has seen the potential sale of Instructure and the sale of Schoology.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=lms
influential tools for online learning
Online Learning’s ‘Greatest Hits’
Robert Ubell (Columnist) Feb 20, 2019
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-02-20-online-learning-s-greatest-hits
dean of web-based distance learning
Learning Management Systems
Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 million students . The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 billion.
Digital Authoring Systems
Faced with increasingly complex communication technologies—voice, video, multimedia, animation—university faculty, expert in their own disciplines, find themselves technically perplexed, largely unprepared to build digital courses.
instructional designers, long employed by industry, joined online academic teams, working closely with faculty to upload and integrate interactive and engaging content.
nstructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.
With authoring software, instructional designers can steer online students through a mixtape of digital content—videos, graphs, weblinks, PDFs, drag-and-drop activities, PowerPoint slides, quizzes, survey tools and so on. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options
Adaptive Learning
As with a pinwheel set in motion, insights from many disciplines—artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, educational psychology and data analytics—have come together to form a relatively new field known as learning science, propelling advances in a new personalized practice—adaptive learning.
MOOCs
Of the top providers, Coursera, the Wall Street-financed company that grew out of the Stanford breakthrough, is the champion with 37 million learners, followed by edX, an MIT-Harvard joint venture, with 18 million. Launched in 2013, XuetangX, the Chinese platform in third place, claims 18 million.
Former Yale President Rick Levin, who served as Coursera’s CEO for a few years, speaking by phone last week, was optimistic about the role MOOCs will play in the digital economy. “The biggest surprise,” Levin argued, “is how strongly MOOCs have been accepted in the corporate world to up-skill employees, especially as the workforce is being transformed by job displacement. It’s the right time for MOOCs to play a major role.”
In virtual education, pedagogy, not technology, drives the metamorphosis from absence to presence, illusion into reality. Skilled online instruction that introduces peer-to-peer learning, virtual teamwork and other pedagogical innovations stimulate active learning. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice. It’s a mistake to think of digital education merely as a device you switch on and off like a garage door.
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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning