Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Auster (2016) defines blended learning in a succinct and clear manner. She states that, at its simplest, blended learning occurs “when a course combines face-to-face and online learning” (p. High engagement with screencasts and positive impact on course attitudes in Carol J. In her study, Carol J.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A minority of the students placed in these courses make to college-level math—a requirement to graduate. The modularized programs in both states have received mixed feedback: Some students appreciate the shorter time to enroll in college courses, while others miss connections between topics across modules. Rethinking remedial.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 21, 2024

Digital textbook platforms offer interactivity and allow publishers & educators to customize digital textbooks to create personalized learning experiences and digital course materials according to individual student needs. Compliance with standardized online testing software is critical to ensuring consistent assessment delivery.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Online PD Course Findings.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 28, 2016

billion in 2016, according to research by the investment bank Berkery Noyes. ( However, the most recent quarter showed a minor increase of 4 percent going from 99 mergers and acquisitions in 2015 to 103 during this most recent quarter of 2016, said Berkery Noyes. See also: Education Industry Mergers Jumped Significantly in 2016.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As LightSail Education charts a new course, the New York City-based developer of K-12 literacy software has had to make some difficult, unpleasant decisions over the holidays, EdSurge has learned. Without Stein and Alexander, and with a barren “team” page on its website, it’s unclear who now runs the company.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

took at least one online course. Using complex passwords, installing antivirus software on all devices, and eschewing public WiFi in favor of more secure channels are simple security tools that should be part of every student’s arsenal. According to the National Center for Education Statistics , a further 33.1% Wrapping up.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, AI assistants helped bolster first-grade students, a majority of whom were struggling to achieve high test scores in science, technology, engineering and math courses. percent by 2016. For Tacoma (Wash.) Public Schools, AI has helped increase graduation rates.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

This three-week course (July 11-July 31) is a follow-on to the introductory class, Tech-infused Teacher , digging into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Course Objectives. Course Highlights. Class starts July 11, 2016 and ends July 31, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Schools across the state are ramping up technology to provide more access to courses for students. At the same time, some schools are using or seeking out technology to increase course offerings and improve access to subjects that have been given the short shrift in an era of standardized testing.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Department of Education 2016 results, would have fallen by more than 1.5 million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. percent from 2015 to 2016 to reach 6.4 They rose 5.6 percent of all U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

As John Warner referenced in 2018 , AltSchool sought to create “technology-infused schools that would revolutionize education;” in brass tacks, Ventilla and his team sought to create a network of microschools buoyed by a technology platform containing self-paced courses and curriculum. Money came flowing.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping it simple.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

When students fail a required high school course, they can retake a prepackaged version of it in a classroom or computer lab, clicking through screens and multiple choice questions to “recover” the credit. “I The online software was a lot cheaper than paying a teacher and graduation rates went up. million to 3.3

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

For example, in 2020, the first known wrongful arrest through misidentification via facial recognition software occurred when police mistakenly accused a Black man of committing a crime. To mitigate the perpetuation of these and related inequities, observers have called for increased diversification of the technology workforce.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This time, we validate ideas with our end users before developing the software. February 2015 We bootstrap software development and curriculum production by selling camps and weekend coding sessions at our brick-and-mortar academy. We begin recording our first online course , a Java programming course with Minecraft.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

The Farmington, Utah-based provider of online courses for technology professionals has been on the radars of industry analysts ever since its $135 million Series B fundraise in 2014. It raised an additional $30 million in 2016 at a $1 billion valuation—thus earning the “unicorn” label. That year, it also added former U.S.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

There were a flurry of stories on the shooting simulation software at the beginning of the year – Gizmodo , Engadget , Rolling Stone , The Verge – several of which seemed to build on an AP story filed in the closing days of 2016. ” But of course, Columbine was hardly the first school shooting.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The company announced today it is making a commitment to do the following: Invest at least $10 million in new scholarships for Black students to attend K12-powered private schools, which includes three private K-12 institutions and the award-winning Galvanize programs in data science and software engineering.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping in simple. Want to set your students up for real-world success?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, the country has no institution that is approved to deliver online degrees, even though it has moved rapidly to embrace MOOCs, free or low-cost online courses offered to millions throughout the country. In 2016, MOOCs claimed more than 10 million enrollments in the country. MOOCs have proven wildly popular in China.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2023

But she saw more opportunity in the United States, where there is a projected demand for more than 160,000 new software developers and related specialists per year, and where tech companies said in a survey that recruiting them is their biggest business challenge. Sergei Nozdrenkov, a Russian software engineer who moved to the U.K.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2024

Of course, most teachers already take pains to make clear to their students what assignments are due, and many teachers, especially in younger grades, employ plenty of human-made strategies like sending newsletters to parents. Customer Service? These models aren’t very good at keeping up with the latest slang,” he acknowledged. “So

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

He then put their raw responses into a software program, and was astounded to find that the most frequently mentioned word was “irrelevant.”. So, over the course of the 2015-2016 school year a team of eight teachers alongside 165 11th grade students piloted the Personalized Learning Academy (PLA) into which 160 junior students were inducted.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

He then put their raw responses into a software program, and was astounded to find that the most frequently mentioned word was “irrelevant.”. So, over the course of the 2015-2016 school year a team of eight teachers alongside 165 11th grade students piloted the Personalized Learning Academy (PLA) into which 160 junior students were inducted.

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Learning Digital Divide Case Study Personalized Learning 150

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Arizona State University agreed this week to mount an independent investigation of a professor’s allegations that students were forced to pay for unneeded software so that they could turn in their homework in hopes of getting a grant from the textbook publisher.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

Each elementary school in the district has a makerspace within its resource center (and the fifth-to-eighth grade students have access through a related studies course), where all the robotics activities are happening. Then we enrolled students in courses on the website. We are in our third year where we have total participation.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 29, 2023

Many learners today opt for eLearning courses of varying disciplines and levels. This flexibility and accessibility make eLearning courses hugely popular. Summing Up The Structure of eLearning Courses eLearning classes are delivered through online learning platforms. Here’s what we’ll cover.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2019

For colleges and universities, the challenge boils down to this: given a finite set of classrooms and faculty availability, how can officials offer courses that students want and need to take, at times that instructors can teach? Such a process may seem antiquated by today’s standards.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Founded in 2016, Motivating Systems is the parent company for PBIS Rewards, Workplace Rewards and TRiO Perks—helping organizations motivate people to do their best. Through Motivating Systems’ software-as-a-service platforms, organizations can utilize technology and reward systems to motivate people with positive reinforcement.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 6, 2020

I address all of these questions in my most recent course on creating your digital portfolio , but hopefully, the items below will give you some food for thought! Different software programs will make “portfolios” easy to share, yet do we truly embrace the power that a digital portfolio can bring into our schools?

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

the developer of zyBooks , a digital courseware platform for computer science and STEM courses. Leavy describes zyBooks as a “complement” to Knewton Alta, which currently offers openly-licensed digital courseware for nearly 40 higher ed courses, mostly focused on general-ed classes. The Hoboken, N.J.-based

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Same for Matific, which gives students math practice tailored to their skill level, and Edgenuity, which develops online courses. As more schools went online and demand for education software grew, more companies began designing and commissioning their own studies about their products. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

In July 2016, the Virginia Commonwealth decided to devote two years of funding to create a program that would offer cybersecurity courseware and training to people (both students and companies) in Virginia. We had a lab with about 100 students a year” and a hefty budget to support hardware, software and a testing environment, he recalls.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

Educational software, ranging from language learning apps like Duolingo to math problem-solving platforms like Khan Academy, provides personalized learning experiences. This could mean providing different project options, elective courses, or extracurricular activities. Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools , 42(1), 69–72.

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