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• The Two Worlds of Learning Analytics | EDUCAUSE

  • But is this really what we want? And who should get access to such combined data? For starters, course faculty should not have access to students' academic backgrounds and performance outside of their courses, as such information could easily bias grading decisions.⁹ On the reverse side of the coin, university administrators should not have access to individual course grading data, as it is not their business to interfere with faculty conducting their courses.
  • In the case of learning analytics, the personal touch — supported by the data collected about students — could make the real difference in their success.

• “Photos For Class” Is My Favorite Site For Finding Images | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Larry Ferlazzo's "'go-to' site" (2016.02.20).

  tags: education digital resources images photos resources

• Recording lectures: legal considerations | Jisc

  "Clarifying the legal aspects of recording lectures at UK further and higher education institutions."

  tags: copyrights intellectual property lectures performances property rights recordings UK

• APA Style Take 2 - YouTube

  Screencast demonstration of quotation, paraphrase, and reference composition techniques by Trey Erwin (2015)

  tags: APA-style capitalization citations composition paraphrasing punctuation references resources writing YouTube

• eWAVE -

  Kortmann, Bernd, & Lunkenheimer, Kerstin (eds.). (2013). The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://ewave-atlas.org, Accessed on 2016-04-05.)

  tags: corpora creoles dialects English Englishes language varieties linguistics morphology mother tongues pidgins syntax

• http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002437/243713e.pdf

  "This policy paper, released for International Mother Language Day, argues that being taught in a language other than their own can negatively impact children’s learning. It shows the importance of teacher training and inclusive supporting materials to improve the learning experience of these children, and provide them with a resilient path of achievement in life" (¶3).

  tags: countries education international languages issues

• Duolingo

  "[T]his review will focus on the iOS iPad version of Duolingo, Apple's 2013 App of the year (Duolingo, 2014) in English (L1) with French as the target language (L2)" (Overview, ¶2)."

  tags: digital game based learning DGBL Duolingo languages learning online technology translation

  • Target users of the app would be autonomous users with some existing level of motivation or curiosity for language study who are seeking to refresh basic skills
    • Target Use, ¶1: Spot on!
  • The Duolingo app is probably best used as a supplement to other language learning materials that offer more contextualized authentic language use
    • Target Use, ¶2: Positive spin!

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