Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One is the assumption that the pedagogy Harvard and other Ivies have always practiced—close-knit groups of students and faculty living and studying together immersively on campus—is the finest in post-secondary education , with no other approach coming close, especially not online.

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MOOC Coursera Industry Course 169

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. From 2011 to 2014, U.S.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 139

EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

Valuations in private markets may gyrate alongside public markets at times, though liquidity and transparency of secondary trades in the private markets may obscure the effect public markets or other economic indicators have on specific pricing of private placement financing rounds.

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Trends EdTech Udemy Company 100

TeacherCast

MARCH 8, 2015

Jeff sits down with Terri Schwartzbeck and Sam Patterson to discuss the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day and how you can have a Future Ready School. This grassroots effort blossomed into a massive nationwide celebration as teachers realized that Digital Learning Day is not about technology, it’s about learning.

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Future Ready Advocacy Digital Learning Learning 68

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. — Carlos Bortoni , Principal, Industry Advisor, K-12 Education, Qualtrics.

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EdTech Industry Assessment Data 133

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

And with that comes challenges that traditional publishers have long wrestled with, namely: How do you not just convert print to digital, but also do it at scale and profitably? Top Hat is “partially becoming a publisher—the thing that they’ve long wanted to compete with,” observes Phil Hill, an education industry analyst and consultant.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 103

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. The growing space industry requires a diverse workforce beyond the conventional role of engineering.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 117

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As a result, performance has increased: standardized test scores, AP enrollment and achievement, graduation rates across all demographics, student attendance, and engagement, and post-secondary concurrent enrollment. Today the Learning Counsel produces thirty Digital Curriculum Discussions each year across the U.S.

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Survey Elementary Software System 130

Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

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Technology E-rate Broadband Outcomes 74

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Principal Rod Ruth was named South Carolina’s 2023 Secondary Principal of the Year. Sourcing tech coaches to support teachers and families, increasing the capacity for teachers to effectively integrate technology into their instruction, and resulting in improved student learning outcomes.

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Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 94

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. “We We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida.

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 94

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

At the same time, companies and policymakers were lamenting over the so-called digital “ skills gap ” among workers and job seekers who lacked the training required to fill a growing number of technology-related job openings. Our Nation is facing a skills crisis. Just one set of skills isn’t going to take care of you for a lifetime.”

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Policies Training Survey Secondary 87

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Within higher ed and between higher ed & industry. Or, as Evan Smith suggested, “Websites of state coordinating boards could list objectives cross-listed for, e.g., both secondary and post-secondary levels.”. Perhaps by archiving full work sets after a course, not just providing a digital badge.

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Digital Badges Education Secondary Assessment 62

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. Speak to those who have spent a lifetime in and out of education.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 68

eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2016

Online learning provider K12 Inc. It also offers a construction apprenticeship program in partnership with industry leaders. ” K12’s career readiness offering uses an end-to-end approach, designed to prepare students to enter the workforce or pursue other post-secondary options.

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Blended Learning Industry Training Secondary 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. The growing space industry requires a diverse workforce beyond the conventional role of engineering.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2016

First and foremost, our goal with post-secondary success at the Gates Foundation is really around getting 11 million more credentials and certificates in the hands of folks who otherwise would not have gotten those kinds of credentials in their hands, by the year 2025. I think education is the most complicated industry to work in.

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Meeting Education Secondary EdTech 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I also chair the Faculty’s Digital Learning Futures group which is there to think about and develop new responses to the needs of education, including the integration of new and emerging technologies, and the development of new learning spaces. All else is secondary and an extension of this. By good pedagogy.

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Secondary Social Media Trends Industry 28

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I also chair the Faculty’s Digital Learning Futures group which is there to think about and develop new responses to the needs of education, including the integration of new and emerging technologies, and the development of new learning spaces. All else is secondary and an extension of this. By good pedagogy.

Secondary 28

Secondary Social Media Trends Industry 28

eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

The computer industry boasts hundreds of thousands of well-paying information technology jobs, with more on the way. On Friday, it listed over 1,000 openings within 25 miles of Sacramento that mentioned programming or database analysis as desired core or secondary skills. IT departments are now a staple of corporate America.

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Course Robotics Industry Secondary 40

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Xirrus provides a vital strategic business and IT infrastructure advantage to industries that depend on wireless to operate business-critical applications. The eSchool Media family of networks serves ed‐tech decision makers throughout the world, primarily in Canada and the United States.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex Seage built a career leading technology and innovation in the cruise industry, which also provided him with a deep understanding of the technology needed to improve the experience for cruise guests. In turn, this increased productivity and reduced disruptions to learning in the secondary school classrooms.

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Education Learning EdTech Data 113

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Subscribe to their blog.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

Those of us who work in education technology have to grapple with this question, I’d argue, because Trump University is emblematic of the kinds of promises we hear all the time about “disruptive innovation” that’ll come in the form of digital learning technologies. (In What are virtual learning environments?

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Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

BIO : Don Buckley has transformed learning spaces so they work for teachers and students and not just architects, he has transformed textbooks so that they work for students and teachers and not just publishers, and transformed new media resources so that they work for students and teachers and not just programmers.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59