edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning? In “ Adaptive Literacy Learning 101 ,” presenters reviewed findings from Tech & Learning’s 2017 survey on adaptive learning and highlighted key points that everyone should know.

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Adaptive Learning Differentiated Instruction Learning Survey 40

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. It was low-tech, but it foreshadowed some of the adaptive learning systems of today. For a while, PSI was used extensively at colleges across the country, including MIT. Is there a way to avoid that pattern?

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Gamification MOOC Adaptive Learning System 146

EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 30, 2019

Schools can be Academies, Grammar Schools, State Schools, Independent Schools, Colleges, and so forth. An article on the newspaper “The Independent” in 2017 claims that the gap between the number of students from private and public schools to reach university has never been larger. Using EdTech and AI to tackle the problem.

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EdTech Adaptive Learning Comparison Groups 207

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Software Digital Learning Sakai Learning 160

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Back in the 1960s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. These days the practice is largely forgotten, but it might bring a sense of déjà vu to proponents of personalized online learning systems. It was low-tech, but it foreshadowed some of the adaptive learning systems of today. What happened?

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Adaptive Learning System Online Learning Google 105

Neo LMS

MARCH 21, 2019

The thought of a machine capable of learning is indeed scary. What if such a machine would assess the learning progress of students and then be able to decide what one student or another should learn next? Then, there are search engines, learning management systems and other cloud-hosted teaching tools. But they’re big.

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Software Adaptive Learning Course Assessment 265

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

And they flocked to a column about how prestigious universities have the advantage when it comes to attracting students to online graduate programs. To Get More Students to Office Hours, Colleges Rethink the Faculty Office by Jeffrey R. But our readers also showed deep interest in less sensational stories, too.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Marten Roorda, who for the past four-and-a-half years has presided as CEO of ACT , the nonprofit best known for its college-admissions test by the same name, is leaving the organization. These efforts have often entailed incorporating research about learning sciences into new offerings. We’ve acquired the capabilities that we need.

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Assessment Adaptive Learning Company Technology 89

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2019

Fuel Education’s Transformation Awards recognize schools, districts or organizations that are successfully transforming education, the way teachers teach, and how students learn. Innovative tools and strategies are transforming education, and the best educators recognize this growing trend and harness it to benefit their students.

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Differentiated Instruction Education Adaptive Learning Trends 105

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Late last week, an economics professor at Arizona State University sent an email to students that quickly went viral arguing that he is being dismissed from the university because he refused to assign an online textbook that he says “requires students to pay just to turn in homework.”

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Pearson Course Social Media Company 158

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

An experimental university announced last week that its home-grown online teaching platform can now handle up to 400 students at a time via live video. And Minerva is not alone, as other colleges these days are trying similar experiments with large-scale live online classes. This is not an operation where one person does it.

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Video MOOC Coursera Company 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 141

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 28, 2018

From their website: OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library since scaled to more than 20 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students.

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OER Adaptive Learning Outcomes Libraries 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Each week, available members opt in for a video call with a peer in their cohort of instructional designers or cohort of deans, directors and provosts of digital learning. So what have Loop members learned in a year of exchanging knowledge? Brad Washington, Assistant Provost for Online Programs, Notre Dame de Namur University.

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Digital Learning Learning Adaptive Learning LMS 104

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close by the end of May, were not shared.

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 137

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

But they often highlight the promise of so-called “adaptive learning” software, in which complex algorithms react to how a student answers questions, and tailor instruction to each student. Most of the universities combined the software with human instruction, but a few courses were delivered entirely online.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. Her academic career spans more than 25 years, and she has extensive experience as a C-level academic administrator in universities that predominantly serve adults. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 88

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. We’re excited to support Knewton’s effort to put Alta into the hands of every college student in the U.S.,” Jim Labe, TriplePoint’s CEO, said in a statement.

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Knewton OER Pearson Adaptive Learning 65

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Today, college students on average spend more than $1,200 on books and materials, according to The College Board. David Wiley, chief academic officer of Lumen Learning The company did not specify a timeframe for how frequently it will print new editions. Revisions and updates can now be made in real-time.”

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 163

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

Habitable Worlds , an introductory science course that Arizona State University professor Ariel Anbar has taught online for five years. It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. Welcome to. Course of the Future.

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Adaptive Learning Software EdTech Course 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Teachers should be empowered with actionable data, equipped to engage each student with a personalized learning experience and supported as they establish stronger relationships with home-based learning guardians such as parents. Learning Engineers do not solely rely on data and algorithmic models to drive changes.

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Learning Data Survey Training 189

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

YouthBuild USA , a Digital Promise Adult Learning Beacon , is an international intermediary for a network of 250 community-based YouthBuild programs and schools around the country. UDL’s guiding principles are: All people learn differently; The emotion behind learning is as important as the learning; and.

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UDL MOOC Learning Strategy 152

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

How do colleges and universities decide which courseware to use? EdSurge contacted 16 institutions working with Every Learner Everywhere , a network that supports innovation in teaching practices, to learn about their preferred procurement methods. Below are seven steps to a successful process for selecting adaptive courseware.

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Adaptive Learning Learning Digital Learning Technology 87

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Looking back now, here are my picks for what have emerged as the most influential tools for online learning that have helped bring digital education from an experiment to a mainstream practice. I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. million students.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 127

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

A new report surveying academic administrators released Wednesday by the Online Learning Consortium and Learning House sheds some insight on innovation challenges at higher education institutions. Cummings tells EdSurge that public organizations, including large public universities, are by design risk averse. Evangeline J.

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Report Competency Based Learning OER Survey 80

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

SXSW EDU Launch Competition Judge Tony will try his best Judy Judy impersonation, as he joins Bridge Burns (University Innovation Alliance), Vince Chan (Creta Ventures) and Jonathan Rochelle (Google) to dispense advice and feedback for eight companies pitching their wares. states and Washington, D.C. We’ll be there, too!

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 103

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. When students engage with Connect, their individual needs become clear.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

Colorado Technical University (CTU) began the adoption of adaptive-learning courses in late 2012. We have just over 100 courses using our proprietary adaptive technology (called intellipath ), 400 faculty trained to use the technology, and approximately 55,000 students who have used it in CTU courses. How did we do it?

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Technology Adaptive Learning Training Course 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Just before professor Barry Spieler enters the classroom at Montgomery College to teach an introductory statistics course, he looks at a data dashboard and gets a sinking feeling. We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn.”. “I He doesn’t sweat it, though, since he has a plan to get everyone back on track.

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Software Adaptive Learning Smartphone Course 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

At Gates Foundation, it’s been about investing in colleges and nonprofit organizations—more on the traditional side of things,” he says in an interview with EdSurge. The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

ACT , the nonprofit best known for its college-readiness test, is undergoing a major transformation. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview. That requires data and data analytics, and we are building our own internal capabilities.

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Assessment Elsevier Knewton Company 63

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

While my college offered an online tool for exploring available courses, there were thousands of potential combinations, and no easy way to see each option. While my college offered an online tool for exploring available courses, there were thousands of potential combinations, and no easy way to see each option.

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EdTech Course Adaptive Learning Software 69

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER). ReUp Education : A company that partners with colleges and universities to re-enroll students who have dropped out of college and then support them through graduation, using technology and human coaches.

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OER Company Outcomes Adaptive Learning 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This is the second part of a three-part series looking at how one college in Texas staged a turnaround. But a money crisis wasn’t the only challenge Texarkana College was facing in 2012. And only 8 percent of students transferred out to another college or university. Nelson Administration Building at Texarkana College.

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Course Data System Adaptive Learning 76

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As a result of the deal, Carnegie will be merging with New Mountain Learning (which is owned by CIP), and the combined operations will continue under the Carnegie Learning name. The merger marks yet another change for Carnegie Learning, which traces its roots to Carnegie Mellon University. Paul, Minn.

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EdTech Learning Adaptive Learning Company 62

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2018

What are the best ways to support and structure digital learning? One text described it as looking into institutional return on investment (ROI) for digital learning. One text described it as looking into institutional return on investment (ROI) for digital learning. Note the absence of Ivies and liberal arts colleges.

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Report Digital Learning Learning Analysis 51

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. That’s the argument of Candace Thille, who has a love-distrust relationship with adaptive software. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool.

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Software Adaptive Learning Company Course 74