[App resources listed in alphabetical order]
1. App Annie: A service for app analytics, and lists popular educational apps. Learn more about App Annie’s analytics here.
2. App Evaluation: Based on research on mobile design principles and instructional strategies, three assistant professors at multiple universities developed four rubrics for educators to formally evaluate mobile applications:
- Cross-content rubric: This rubric is the most general of the rubrics, enabling educators to evaluate any number of apps on a wide variety of subjects or for diverse educational purposes.
- Special education rubric: Slightly different in that the rubric focuses more on certain criteria, the special education rubric can also be used for general education, too.
- Student evaluation rubric: Educators may still need to tailor the language of this rubric for students, but the rubric uses slightly broken-down language to ask students what they think of the mobile apps they’re using in school.
- Math rubric: “There’s a ton of math language we used in this rubric and it’s great for the multitude of math apps now available on the market,” said one professor.
3. Appolicious: This site includes Apple app, android apps and general education apps, and is a mobile app discovery service that licenses algorithmic-based app search and recommendation technology to third parties including Samsung. Algorithms are based on proprietary app metadata, generated through social graph and app ownership, user-generated content, and editorial content and classification. Members of the Appolicious community share, review, and curate lists of apps that are most relevant to them.
4. APPitic: A directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help educators transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings. App lists are often unique, and include apps for preschool, autism and special education, physical education, flipped learning, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and more.
5. Appysmarts: Provides vetted education apps for a variety of subjects and grade levels, with other important categorizations; such as “Free or discounted apps.” There’s also an apps review forum. This site provides users with recommendations through a complex rating and ranking criteria and a special algorithm to analyze and match the data.
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