Educational Technology

July 24, 2019

California Students Caught in the Middle

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Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
Education Department officials announced Monday that Californians who are enrolled in online programs at public or private nonprofit colleges and universities in other states will be ineligible for federal financial aid under the 2016 state authorization rules that took effect in May because of a judge’s ruling.

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/07/24/dispute-over-federal-rules-state-authorization-imperils

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2019’s States with the Most and Least Student Debt

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Adam McCann, Wallet Hub

Not all states are equal when it comes to the burden of student loans. With student-loan debtors in mind, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 12 key measures of indebtedness and earning opportunities. Our data set ranges from average student debt to unemployment rate among the population aged 25 to 34 to share of students with past-due loan balances. Read on for our findings, insight from a panel of researchers and a full description of our methodology.

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-student-debt/7520/

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Data Science Salary Survey Reveals Market Shift

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Jessica Davis, Information Week

Entry-level (level 1) predictive analytics professionals with a four-year degree can expect an entry-level base salary that averages $78,615 (with a median of $80,000). A master’s degree won’t make that much of a difference to salary at level 1 for predictive analytics pros who earn a base level salary that averages $80,737 (with a median of $80,000). At the entry level, predictive analytics pros saw a salary increase of 4% year over year, Ferguson said. Level 2 and level 3 individual contributors each saw a 2% increase year over year. Level 3 predictive analytics pros with a PhD earn an average base salary of $159,956 (with a median of $140,000).

https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/team-building-and-staffing/data-science-salary-survey-reveals-market-shift/d/d-id/1335077

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Four Tips For High School Students Considering An Online Course

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Kristen Moon, Forbes

Online courses are an excellent way to take your interest to the next level or explore a new field. Best of all, many courses are free and offered by the world’s top universities and companies. With summer in full swing, high school students can help fill the long, hot summer days with learning.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristenmoon/2019/07/09/4-tips-for-high-school-students-considering-an-online-course/

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July 23, 2019

4 Guidelines to Help You Merge Tech and PBL

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by Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Technology is a valuable tool for learning. So is project-based learning. It’s only natural to merge the two for an immersive learning experience that engages and empowers students. With a little planning and forethought, you can create outstanding PBL projects that incorporate technology. To implement effective project-based learning, you’ll need to consider four areas for change.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/4-guidelines-to-help-you-merge-tech-and-pbl/

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Criticism Over IT Outsourcing Decision

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Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed

For three days in June 2017, Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Mich., experienced a complete network shutdown. Wishing to prevent any future outages, Rose B. Bellanca, Washtenaw’s president, commissioned a comprehensive review of the college’s entire IT infrastructure and staffing.  The college’s proposal, presented to the Board of Trustees on May 21, is to contract with higher education software and IT service provider Ellucian to provide technology management services, including on-site support staff at the college. Under the proposal, which was passed in a 5-to-2 vote by the board June 25, Ellucian will be responsible for all current and future technology needs of the college. ​

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/08/washtenaw-community-college-outsources-its-it-staff

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What You Need to Use Drones in Your Next Class Project

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by Matthew Lynch

If you want to help your students’ dreams take flight, it may be time to use drones at school. Drone technology makes it possible to view the world with new eyes.   Maintenance departments use drones for structure checks, and transportation directors can capture aerial footage of traffic patterns. Schools employ drone technology for security checks, and classrooms use it for teaching point of view and documenting their projects. Drones technology lends itself well to instruction, especially STEAM projects and video storytelling.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/what-you-need-to-use-drones-in-your-next-class-project/

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July 22, 2019

Cuts in state funding to public colleges may be to blame for a decline in bachelor’s degrees

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By Jillian Berman, Market Watch

“Money matters,” said Sarah Turner, an economics and education professor at the University of Virginia and one of the authors of the paper. “The declines in state appropriations have had real effects in terms of degree output, enrollment and there’s at least suggestive evidence that there’s some impact on research outputs.” A decline in state funding to public colleges is also associated with a drop in the number of people earning the types of credentials at public research universities necessary for the types of scientific innovation that boosts the economy, the research found. A 10% drop in state funding is correlated with a 5% drop in master’s degrees in science, engineering, technology and math (or STEM) and a 10.2% drop in Ph.Ds in those fields.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cuts-in-state-funding-to-public-colleges-may-be-to-blame-for-a-decline-in-bachelors-degrees-2019-06-18

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Boosting Degree Completion With Blockchain

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Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed

Arizona State is rethinking how this student data might be exchanged. In partnership with Salesforce, the university’s central enterprise unit, EdPlus, is creating a student data network that will enable participating institutions to share and verify students’ academic records using a distributed ledger technology such as blockchain. Donna Kidwell, chief technology officer at EdPlus, said that reverse transfer is just one area where the institution hopes to make its network of verifiable and secure credentials useful. The technology could, for example, be used to help global institutions and employers verify the academic qualifications of refugees.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/09/arizona-state-tackling-college-completion-blockchain

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At 63, Bill Gates says he now asks himself these 3 questions that he wouldn’t have in his 20s

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Marcel Schwantes, CNBC

Gates also noted how different his assessment looks today, at age 63, than it did in his 20s. “Back then, an end-of-year assessment would amount to just one question: Is Microsoft software making the personal-computing dream come true?” he wrote. Of course, Gates still assesses the quality of his work, but he also asks himself a whole set of other questions about his life. “These would have been laughable to me when I was 25, but as I get older, they are much more meaningful.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/06/bill-gates-measures-his-quality-of-life-by-asking-himself-3-questions.html

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July 21, 2019

What is personalized learning and why is it so controversial? 5 questions answered

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Penny Bishop, the Conversation

The term “personalized learning” is becoming more common. Indeed, 39 states mention personalized learning in their school improvement plans, as required by the Every Student Succeeds Act. Not only are states legislating personalized learning, but philanthropists are funding it and, in some cases, families are pushing back against it. Penny Bishop, a researcher who focuses on learning environments, answers five questions about personalized learning.

https://theconversation.com/what-is-personalized-learning-and-why-is-it-so-controversial-5-questions-answered-118030

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AI can simulate quantum systems without massive computing power

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Jon Fingas, Engadget

It’s difficult to simulate quantum physics, as the computing demand grows exponentially the more complex the quantum system gets — even a supercomputer might not be enough. AI might come to the rescue, though. Researchers have developed a computational method that uses neural networks to simulate quantum systems of “considerable” size, no matter what the geometry. To put it relatively simply, the team combines familiar methods of studying quantum systems (such as Monte Carlo random sampling) with a neural network that can simultaneously represent many quantum states.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/05/ai-simulates-quantum-systems/

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13 Signs of High Emotional Intelligence: Are these forgotten when we consider needed workforce skills?

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By Justin Bariso, Inc

In 1995, psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goleman published a book introducing most of the world to the nascent concept of emotional intelligence. The idea–that an ability to understand and manage emotions greatly increases our chances of success–quickly took off, and it went on to greatly influence the way people think about emotions and human behavior.

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/13-things-emotionally-intelligent-people-do.html

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July 20, 2019

The push to put robotics in rural schools

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BY PATTY COOKE, eSchool News
Rural schools in the United States face challenges many of their suburban counterparts couldn’t fathom. For example, access to challenging and engaging STEM courses such as robotics and coding is not as prevalent in rural schools as it is in larger districts. But one district is aiming to make it easier for students to access robotics in rural schools. “Out of the Loop,” a 2018 report from The National School Boards Association Center for Public Education, notes that “rural students have significantly less access to STEM-focused AP courses” and that gaps such as this “may indicate that rural students have limited access to academically rigorous programs.”

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2019/07/05/robotics-in-rural-schools/

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U.S., U.K. and Canadian residents call for a unified skills strategy for the AI age

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Northeastern University and Gallup

We asked 10,000 people in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada what they thought about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs. We wanted to know what they believe it takes to be prepared, what type of education is needed, who should provide it and who should pay for it. And do they believe higher education,
business and government are up to the task to solve the skills crisis?

https://www.northeastern.edu/gallup/

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Udacity’s AI generates lecture videos from audio narration

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KYLE WIGGERS, Venture Beat

Professional-level lecture clips require not only a veritable studio’s worth of equipment, but significant resources to transfer, edit, and upload footage of each lesson. That’s why research scientists at Udacity, an online learning platform with over 100,000 courses, are investigating a machine learning framework that automatically generates lecture videos from audio narration alone. They claim in a preprint paper (“LumièreNet: Lecture Video Synthesis from Audio“) on Arxiv.org that their AI system — LumièreNet — can synthesize footage of any length by directly mapping between audio and corresponding visuals.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/05/udacitys-ai-generates-lecture-videos-from-audio-narrations/

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July 19, 2019

The push for explainable AI

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BY DEREK B. JOHNSONJUL, GNC

While organizations are ultimately legally responsible for the ways their products, including algorithms, behave, many encounter what is known as the “black box” problem: situations where the decisions made by a machine learning algorithm become more opaque to human managers over time as it takes in more data and makes increasingly complex inferences. The challenge has led experts to champion “explainability” as a key factor for regulators to assess the ethical and legal use of algorithms, essentially being able to demonstrate that an organization has insight into what information its algorithm is using to arrive at the conclusions it spits out. The Algorithmic Accountability Act would give the Federal Trade Commission two years to develop regulations requiring large companies to conduct automated decision system impact assessments of their algorithms and treat discrimination resulting from those decisions as “unfair or deceptive acts and practices,” opening those firms up to civil lawsuits.

https://gcn.com/articles/2019/07/03/explainable-ai.aspx

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How AI can strengthen and defend democracy

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KHARI JOHNSON, Venture Beat

Democratic societies the world over have come under attack in this digital era — and in ways many probably never thought possible in their lifetime. In an interview with VentureBeat earlier this year, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott said that any informed citizen in the 21st century must have some understanding of artificial intelligence in order to participate in debates, because “You don’t want to be someone to whom AI is sort of this thing that happens to you.” If you believe any part of assertion, or recent call for education initiatives by EU AI experts then public education initiatives to teach more people about AI may in fact be an act that strengthens democracy. The Finnish government for example committed to educating 1% of its population on the basics of AI.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/04/how-ai-can-strengthen-and-defend-democracy/

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3 in 4 Schools Approaching 100% WiFi Coverage on Campus

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By Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology
About three-quarters of higher education institutions in a recent survey currently offer wireless coverage for 81 percent to 100 percent of the entire campus. And 84 percent offer a strong wireless connection in on-campus student areas. That’s according to the latest State of ResNet Report from the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. For its eight annual survey, ACUHO-I polled 351 higher education administrators at 200 institutions about residential network trends, practices and policies to understand the challenges schools face providing high-performance networks in residence halls and campuswide.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2019/07/03/3-in-4-schools-approaching-100-wifi-coverage-on-campus.aspx?admgarea=news

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July 18, 2019

Snow days could be eliminated in bill signed by Gov. Wolf

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BY SARAH HOFIUS HALL, Lockhaven Express

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill Tuesday that allows schools to replace snow days with “flexible instructional days” — which means students would learn from home and not have to make up the days schools are closed for inclement weather or other emergencies.  School districts interested in the option will have to submit an application to the state, detailing how educators will ensure students have access to technology, meet the requirements of special education students and monitor attendance. Leaders of area school districts — which had as many as seven or eight snow days last year — said flex days may be worth pursuing.

http://www.lockhaven.com/news/local-news/2019/07/snow-days-could-be-eliminated-in-bill-signed-by-gov-wolf/

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The first online class I taught included both a homeless student and an Olympic athlete

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by SHERI MCKEEVER, Hechinger Report

In my first class, I had a homeless student from St. Paul and another who was training for the Olympics in the Duluth area. Both were concerned about their education and wanted to succeed. They had unique circumstances, yet they shared many common challenges — internet access, enough time to complete assignments, anxiety about failure. The entire class shared their stories, and their worries, with one another and reinforced each student’s strengths and perseverance. We worked hard as a class to find common ground and cultivate our strengths. Technology has enabled me to connect with my students in ways I never had when I taught in a traditional classroom.

https://hechingerreport.org/teacher-voice-diversity-and-online-learning/

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