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Synchronous Writing in the Classroom: Undergraduates’ Collaborative Practices and their Impact on Text Quality, Quantity, and Style

Group activities that use Google Docs for simultaneous collaborative writing and editing are increasingly common in higher education. fffaThis paper explores the different styles of synchronous collaboration in 45 Google Docs documents produced by 82 undergraduate students, and how students' practices affect the specific dimensions of the final text including quality. The results suggest that (a) out of four styles, Divide and Conquer style tended to produce better quality text whereas Main Writer had the lowest quality scores, and that (b) balanced participation and amount of peer editing led to longer texts with higher quality scores for content, evidence, but not organization or mechanics.

Review of research on mobile language learning in authentic environments

The increasing spread of mobile technologies provides educators and developers with more opportunities for creating a wider range of education tools. We aimed to understand publications’ trend, research focus, technology used, methodology, and current issues. Our results showed that there was increasing trend in the publications. Students’ perceptions towards mobile learning technologies and language proficiency were the most common research topics. The most frequently used technossffflogies were smartphones.Based on our results, we discuss some implications and make suggestions over mobile language learning in authentic environments for the educators and researchers.

Speak – AI English tutor

Speak offers a mobile app where you can have English conversations with your phone about real-world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify English words through thick accents and teach people to speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-English speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.

Augmented reality children's books bring bedtime stories to life in 3D

British start-up Mardles has embraced AR as a means to engage with kids through books. Each book (they cost £6.99 each) tells a moral story that can be transformed into a 3D interactive environment on a smartphone or tablet. Once you've loaded the app, you can scan each page in the book using the camera on your phone or tablet. You'll be greeted with a 3D representation of the illustration on the page - such as a cow in a field or a fish under the sea. On the screen, you can interact with the environment by tapping on a tree, a rock or the gate in a fence to see how the characters in the story react to it.

科学家分析了40多项对问题式学习的研究，它真的能够超越传统课堂吗?

在教育创新的浪潮下，基于问题的学习（Problem-based learning）成为一种被广泛采用的教学模式。以建构主义为理论基础，它强调为学生提供真实的、有意义的问题情境，通过小组协作，共同提出和解决问题，在这个过程中完成知识建构。该模式把重点放在学生的学习上，老师更多的是辅助者的角色。那么，作为一种新兴的教学模式，它对提升学习效果真的有效吗？本文梳理了近年来 PBL 方面的研究，试图给出答案。

硅谷精英争当美国教育改革家

在短短几年时间里，科技巨头已经开始采用那些令他们的公司成为美国经济支柱的技术大规模重塑学校教育的本质。通过慈善事业，他们正在影响学校教学的课程、教师选择的课堂工具和基本的学习方法。这些21世纪最富有、最有影响力的巨子，是在参与一种教育上的非凡实验，数百万学生实际上成了他们想法的贝塔版测试者。一些科技领袖认为，工程思维可以改善任何系统，他们的商业头脑也令他们有资格去反思美国教育。

The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

In 2011-2012, some of the world's most famous universities and technology entrepreneurs began a revolution in higher education. College courses that had been kept from all but an elite few were released to students around the world -- for free. And thanks to exploding tuition prices, a volatile global economy and some high-tech innovations, we're now poised for a total rethinking of what college is and should be. In the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling THE END OF COLLEGE, Kevin Carey draws on new research to paint an exciting portrait of the near future of education. He explains how the college experience is being radically altered now and how it will emancipate millions of people around the world. Insightful and readable, THE END OF COLLEGE is an innovative roadmap to understanding tomorrow's higher education today.

Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. This book turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.

2018 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting

The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education
New York City, NY.
April 13-17, 2018

Deborah Loewenberg Ball, AERA President, Carla O'Connor, Annual Program Co-Chair, Suzanne Wilson, Annual Program Co-Chair, and the 2018 Program Committee are pleased to announce this year’s Annual Meeting Theme: "The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education."

1st Sino-UK Symposium on Technology and Language Teaching – Tutors’ Role

August 27—28, 2017 Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China

The ASU + GSV Summit is an annual conference for everyone who matters in the learning and talent innovation community. It's a chance to be seen and heard by people who want to change the world, whether you want to raise funds for your startup, meet potential employees or connect with others to share ideas.

GLoCALL 2018 Conference & 15th ChinaCALL Conference 2018

August 16th- 18th, 2018 Suzhou, China

Jointly sponsored by China Computer-Assisted Language Learning Association (ChinaCALL), Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (APACALL) , Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (PacCALL), and hosted by School of Online and Continuing Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Language Centre, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, the conference aims to share knowledge, skills, and ideas on the integration of technologies and language learning in the forms of workshops, plenary sessions, paper presentations, symposia and colloquiums.