ReThink – Anti-bullying app
“ReThink is an award-winning, innovative, nonintrusive, patented technology that effectively detects and stops online hate before the damage is done.” ReThink detects offensive digital comments and provides users with an opportunity to reconsider, and reword their responses. The product was pitched on Shark Tank (below) and more information can be found on their website (https://www.rethinkwords.com/).
Peekabook – Educational Toy for Creative Learning
Peekabook is an educational toy that encourages children to take control of their learning with a digital device. To find more about the project, watch the video below or visit their Kickstarter page.
How Technology is Shaping Learning in Higher Education – McKinsey
This report focused on the experiences of students and educators from institutions of higher education in the United States with educational technology used during the switch to online learning necessitated at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It categorizes educational technologies and has clear information about which were used most frequently and which students and […]
Bringing the Power of Information Architecture to eLearning
If you have used content management systems before, you may know the power of information architecture and reusing words and content to build guides, templates, instructions, and more. “Paligo is an end-to-end CCMS (Component Content Management System) solution for technical documentation, policies and procedures, knowledge management, and more” (Paligo). In Paligo’s latest newsletter, “What’s New […]
Gartner Insights – From LMS to Corporate Learning
The Old-Timer: LMS Ventures I think in terms of educational ventures, the last few decades the headlines have been dominated by the big corporations that held the LMS market. These “big edu companies” were usually in two fields: LMS systems or student management systems. Their products were aimed at large institutions (like universities and colleges) […]
GSV Edtech 150
Global Silicon Valley (GSV) is a private “growth investment platform powering the world’s most dynamic entrepreneurs, companies, institutions, and emerging growth hubs.” In simpler terms, GSV identifies and invests in innovative leaders throughout the global tech market. GSV Ventures is their global learning technologies investment stream, where they share insights into the global learning landscape, […]
Opportunity Horizon: eLearning Trends: 2021/2022 Current Data, Analysis & Insight
|Part 1 For my Opportunity Horizon, I decided to look at Cindy Keung’s ‘eLearning Industry’ site. I’m not too sure if it entirely qualifies as a “Marketplace projection” given the fact that it is a website and contains multiple articles, many of which are sponsored. Nonetheless, as it is in the marketplace projection category WordPress, […]
Machine Learning models to predict relevant outcomes from records
This clinical trial describes a retrospective analysis of patients’ records (approximately 6 million records) between September 2012 and November 2018 to develop a mental crises risk model inputting data from 17,122 patients into a machine learning algorithm. After the retrospective phase, a prospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate the crisis prediction algorithm in clinical […]
Introducing: Scott!
Hello everyone! I’m a little late to the party due to work, but still wanted to let everyone learn a little bit about me. My name is Scott Hladun and I’m very excited to embark on this course with all of you. This will be my third course in the MET program, but the one […]
Katie’s Introduction
Hello everyone! Hi! My name is Katie and I am a grade 6/7 teacher in Vancouver. I work in a fine arts program and absolutely love teaching middle school age students. I originally trained as a secondary French and Drama teacher at UBC and did my undergraduate degree at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In […]