Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

Trends 206

Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 206

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess. These are matrixed to create four ways of diagnosing how OER are working in support of student learning.

OER 114

OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 114

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Assessment is subjective. And as many of these technologies do not monitor student performance, learning difficulties are not tracked or identified early; preventing intervention with supplementary and personalised supports. The Need for Autonomous Assessment. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

Learning Analytics 40

Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

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. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Thirty percent of the company’s revenues come from assessments of one kind or another, which includes professional certification and apprenticeship programs, as well as summative exams. Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].

Common Core 76

Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Schools and districts can continue to benefit from the federal government’s stimulus dollars through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) of 2021, the third iteration of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). For example, if Texas gets 10% of Title I dollars, it will get 10% of available ESSER dollars.

Mobile Learning 85

Mobile Learning EdTech Company Data 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145