Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

The learning model is based on an architecture design studio, and is a far cry from the assessment and standards-based paradigm of most education systems around the world. They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learn analytically.

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Groups Learning Analytics Assessment Robotics 82

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Essential Physics is a full-color, comprehensive physics textbook, paired with an e-book offering over 100 interactive tools to increase student engagement and understanding. CMS is implementing Essential Physics in all 19 high schools that offer physics or honors physics courses.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tech devices won't fix our education system | Lockport Union Sun & Journal → Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently issued a plea for greater student access to high-tech tools. "This " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. Tagged on: March 6, 2017.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 4, “Technology Curves.” ”(2138). ” (2247). ” (2247). What do you make of it?

Education 40

Education MOOC Learning Analytics Data 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 107

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

The new ClassFlow Marketplace is an open community where teachers may buy and sell original teaching resources such as digital lessons, unit plans, assessments, teaching guides, worksheets, and more. Collaborative software provider ClassFlow announced a way for teachers to earn extra cash during the upcoming school year. Read more.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. But Bridges noted that dealing with analytics is not in every professor’s wheelhouse. “If

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Software Learning Data Course 117

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

They returned a syllabus that was all-white in composition – not just in that the primary authors of the books selected contained no people of color but the books themselves largely avoided America's colonial-settler, chattel-slavery, and racist-imperial history.” ” Will for-profit higher ed be an election issue?

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” But here are some education-related stories: Via Education Week : “Privacy Experts Assess Potential K–12 Fallout From Facebook ’s Crisis of Trust.”

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 4, 2023

With more and more individuals gaining access to the internet globally, online content consumption has manifolded. Naturally, this has had a negative impact on traditional book publishing, with print book sales falling by 6.5% Owing to this, educational institutions have also started shifting to digital book publishing.

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eBook Learning Analytics Software Accessibility 52

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

. “In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports. (It’ll

Education 52

Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The word “intelligence” is also used, of course, to describe the gathering and assessment of tactical information – information, often confidential information, with political or military value. You can’t opt out of required digital textbooks or digital assignments or digital assessments.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

A bill in Missouri would end tenure for all new faculty hires starting in 2018 and require more student access to information about the job market for majors. Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr. Via EdTech Magazine : “How Learning Analytics Can Help Inform K–12 Decisions.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” The university recently decided not to partner with the for-profit ITT, and I do wonder if that decision counted as a positive or negative in Moody’s assessment.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52