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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

Edsurge

Even back in 2001, an in-depth study of an online-education effort at the State University of New York reported that most faculty who taught remotely found the techniques they discovered online positively impacted their campus instruction when they returned to the classroom.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

That was the idea behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. It’s a huge industry and there are major sales to schools,” said Hill in an interview afterward. T he numbers were supposed to shed light on what was happening in public schools.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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3 ways Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) paved the way for edtech

eSchool News

Regardless of whether Mister Rogers’ puppets, trains, and soothing voice touched your childhood personally, he was inarguably a very “good neighbor” to millions of preschool children during his nearly 40 years of public broadcasting from 1963 to 2001.

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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, India and China had similar GERs. Although lower than the global average of 36.7% Student finances and funding. Postgraduate enrolments are still feeble. India has 216.2

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Does Your Company Really Need AI? Stanford Executive Course Aims to Demystify the Hype

Edsurge

In the past couple of years, the tech industry has struggled through a dark time. If used ethically, [AI] could revolutionize psychological assessment, marketing, recruitment, insurance, and many other industries,” the course description reads. “In In 2001, BusinessWeek estimated the executive education market at $800 million.

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#AskExcelinEd: Did you know the iPod was introduced 18 years ago today?

ExcelinEd

On this day in 2001, Apple introduced the first iPod. Yet our education system remains stuck in the industrial age. It is National iPod Day! Over the past two decades, technology has changed every aspect of our lives. It’s time to transform education for the 21 st century. Join us at #EIE19. “[Our