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Student engagement: Can education find its focus in a world of distractions?
With digital distractions aplenty, it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep students engaged with learning, but technology can be used to serve education too.

The workplace skills that will survive the AI revolution
The AI revolution isn’t the end of the line for employees: it’s a chance for them to evolve and develop workplace skills that will endure.…

An introvert in a digital world: How technology is empowering the quieter half
Many learners, creatives, entrepreneurs, and thinkers are introverts by nature, and the digital age is finally giving them a chance to shine. It was a…

Donating today to help the innovators of tomorrow
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance." In April Learnosity attended the ASU+GSV Summit in sunny San Diego. A major…

Want to foster greater diversity in the workplace? Start with how you assess candidates
The drive toward greater workforce diversity is part of the battle for talent and another reason why employee assessment needs to evolve. In the Internet’s…
Principles
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Why GDPR is an opportunity to move forward
We are all investors in the fast-developing data economy. Every online interaction we have generates information about us, adding to the ever-increasing digital trail we each…

Professor Mahnaz Moallem on the role of assessment (part two)
The second installment of our two-part interview with Mahnaz Moallem, Professor of Instructional Technology at UNCW. A celebrated pioneer in the field of STEM education…

Professor Mahnaz Moallem on rethinking assessment
Part one of our two-part interview with Mahnaz Moallem, Professor of Instructional Technology at UNCW. When examining the future of learning and assessment the nuances…

How technology can help overcome test anxiety
Test anxiety has a negative impact on genuine learning, but technology can help conquer it. Sometimes it takes a challenge to bring out the best in…

Invisible women: Female absences and misconceptions in STEM (infographic)
In the male-dominated STEM disciplines, the influence of women has largely gone unacknowledged. But the facts suggest that lack of female participation may be influenced…

Storytelling in STEM – can changing the narrative (finally) give girls a voice?
The absence of story in STEM is often cited as a reason for a lack of female participation, but it's time we look more closely at the…
Process
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What’s in a label? Developing accessible software with ARIA labels and alt-text
We take a look at a web developer’s implementation considerations with alt-text and ARIA labels and explain how we developed SpokenMath, our custom software for…

Workflows don’t stop at Git branches
One simple question made us examine our entire Git workflow and its interaction with the lifecycle of our tickets. A few weeks ago, a debate…

Look beyond what you see: Color testing for accessibility – Part 2
In the second of a two-part series, Learnosity’s User Experience Designer James Santilli describes the team's research and next steps in color testing the product for accessibility.…

Look beyond what you see: Color testing for accessibility – Part 1
In part one of a two-part series, Learnosity’s User Experience Designer James Santilli traces the team's journey toward color testing the product for accessibility. It was…

How we created a game using Learnosity’s APIs in just two weeks
They say the best way of learning is by doing. Learnosity's two-week bootcamp proved that to be the case. I enjoy playing group trivia games…

Infrastructure as code: Successfully scaling to new heights
How do you prepare a product to meet the demands of a rapidly growing user base? Meet someone who knows. Alan Garfield is a busy…
Product
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Easier versioning for Learnosity APIs
From the 6th of June 2018, we’ll be unifying the versioning across our APIs in order to make it simpler for your Product, Development, and…

Some popular questions about Learnosity’s assessment technology
No-nonsense answers to some of the questions we get asked the most. Last week, the Learnosity team set up shop at the prestigious ASU+GSV Summit,…

How Learnosity powers accelerated learning
Learnosity offers world-class technology for building and delivering online assessments at scale. The unique Learnosity authoring, assessment, and analytics API product suite leverages a powerful…

Being responsive: Using customer insights to reinvent product features
Our engineers recently created a far superior image drag & drop question type, but it was our users who helped make it what it is.…

Making some noise about audio recording Questions on iOS
Keeping our ears to the ground and anticipating change has lead to a vastly improved user experience of the audio question type. The development team…

What are Technology-Enhanced Items?
Today’s learning environments have seen a notable influx of digital technology products. Various forms of educational technology are being used to increase learner engagement, provide better learning experiences, and…