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This article discusses the current position of learning analytics in education, and how third party applications are beginning to make the tools more cost-effective.

Talks about how learning analytics have come to stay in our world.

This artical is good in explaining what learn analytics is and how it is used in a process. It says that learning analytics is to observe and understand learning behaviors in order to make a change. It starts as data collection. This is different methods and scripts to collect data. Then the data is analyzed. After that the supposedly find something to improve learning. After this they introduce this the the education system to get approval of use. And the last step is intervention where the new method starts or is in development to be integrated in the education for students.

South Koreans realize that technology doesn't always bring progress. Not going as ebook as planned according to this washington post article. "But South Korea, among the world's most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn't anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more. Those concerns have caused South Korea to pin back the ambition of the project, which is in a trial stage at about 50 schools. Now, the full rollout won't be a revolution: Classes will use digital textbooks alongside paper textbooks, not instead of them. First- and second-graders, government officials say, probably won't use the gadgets at all."

Very good source if you need exact info and stats.

This website has many links to articles that deal with mobile apps. They can be useful to learn more about mobile apps. 

how learning analytics should be used

In this article a teacher explains how she used learning analytics to help her class room. She started off using the LMS system which is a program that tracks the data of students like where they go and how on task they are. She mostly used this to grade not knowing the full uses of this process and concluded that in order for researching learning and analyzing them you need a whole education faculty on board. If the process of learning analytics is fully understood and used it possibilities are very high.

Excellent article about Mark Zuckerberg's growing up as a CEO.

This website gives a list of about 10 benefits of Tablet Computers.

This gives a brief summary on the history of the tablet computer, and the different concepts that go along with it. Also, it discusses different types of tablet computers and which was the first created.

This is a good website for explaining what could come out of mobile apps bad or good.

It tells a realistic way to incorporate games into learning, whether they be video games or not.

This is another website that helps businesses design their own mobile app. The believe that they next big thing for businesses will be to customized their own app for people to purchase. If they do not do this, they may be left behind in the business world.

This website is a prime example of how people are beginning to customize every aspect of their life. This website was designed to allow people to customize mobile apps just for their business. So not only are people customizing their personal things, but their businesses too.

This website talks about technology is once again changing the way the school system functions. People are beginning to be able to get their school books online through mobile apps and then use additional apps to create documents. By being able to do this, students will be able to customize their curriculum to how they learn best.

This page gives 10 ways game-based learning can help and why it works. It also gives links to other websites relevant to the reason.

This website gives ten reasons why game based learning should be used.

This article talks about how some schools have been using game-based learning to help teach and how effective it is.

This is a good website to explain the cons of mobile apps. 

This site gives examples on how learning analytics can be used in education.