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7 Things You Should Read About Transmedia Storytelling
Transmedia storytelling combines audio, video, text, and other media platforms to create a narrative that unfolds over time. As a technique for teaching and learning, transmedia storytelling creates opportunities for both the consumers of digital stories and the producers of them to have engaging learning experiences.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Adapting to Learn, Learning to Adapt
Adaptive, or personalized, learning is becoming the next big thing in online education. By providing each student with a custom, personalized path through courses and tracking both content covered and level of attained mastery, adaptive learning platforms hold great promise for enhancing student learning and success.
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SOURCE: Educause
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NIST SP 800-171 Compliance Template
Higher education institutions continue to refine their understanding of the impact of NIST Special Publication 800-171 on their IT systems and the data they receive from the federal government. This compliance template will help institutions map the NIST SP 800-171 requirements to other common security standards used in higher education, and provides suggested responses to controls listed in NIST SP 800-171.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Reimagining Space, Time & Staffing
This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and 2Revolutions is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use as a guide for reimagining the fundamental structures of their schools to propel students’ learning, not halt it. It includes top tips, strategies, and resources to dive further into the use of space, time, and staffing.
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SOURCE: Educause
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IT Risk Register
This IT Risk Register was created to help institutional IT departments get their strategic IT risk-management programs off the ground.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Customer Relationship Management Systems: A 2015 Enterprise Application Market Higher Education Report
The 2015 Enterprise Application Market reports from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) used 2015 data collected in the 2016 EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey to better understand how higher education institutions approach various information systems.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Tor
The Onion Router (Tor) is a popular distributed network of global relays that provides anonymity against network surveillance and traffic analysis. Originally developed for the United States Navy, Tor is a free, open-source tool run by volunteers that helps users keep their browsing habits and physical locations private. Tor can be used for web browsers, instant messaging clients, mobile operating systems, and more.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Splunk
Splunk is a log management, search, correlation, and data visualization tool. More institutions are starting to use this type of predictive analytics tool to better understand the large amounts of machine (i.e., log) data being generated across the institution. Better analyzing this data means that more informed business decisions can be made across the institution.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Next Gen Tools: Hiring for Mindset
Because teachers are the most important school-based factor for student success, hiring matters. Hiring for mindset involves a performance-based experience, where current students and teachers have a strong voice in the selection process, and a candidate’s fit with school culture has at least equal weight with performance and content knowledge.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Student Data in the Digital Era: An Overview of Current Practices
Ithaka S+R’s newest publication “Student Data in the Digital Era: An Overview of Current Practices “ was written by Rayane Alamuddin, Jessie Brown, and Martin Kurzweil.To provide an overview of the student data landscape, the authors reviewed initiatives in three broad categories: Research: Student data are used to conduct empirical studies designed primarily to advance knowledge in the field, though with the potential to influence institutional practices and interventions. Application: Student data are used to inform changes in institutional practices, programs, or policies, in order to improve student learning and support. Representation: Student data are used to report on the educational experiences and achievements of students to internal and external audiences, in ways that are more extensive and nuanced than the traditional transcript.
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SOURCE: Educause
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