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Self-Regulation in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

Self-regulation is the “self-directive process by which learners transform their mental abilities into academic skills” and “the self-generated thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are oriented to attaining goals” (Zimmerman, 2000; 2002). It is not a mental ability or an academic performance skill (Zimmerman, 2002).

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. In 2020, there were only about 37,000 college graduates who had majored in English, down a third from 55,000 in 2009. Credit: Meenakshi Van Zee for The Hechinger Report.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. The other acquisition, Edulence, was founded in 2002 and is based in New York. We want to play in the major leagues.”

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50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom

Waterford

For a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) activity, try one of these Science of Sound experiments. Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, July 2009, 37(4), pp. Sociology of Education, 2002, 75(1), pp. Does musical training improve school performance?

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3 innovative ways to help teachers feel engaged and valued

eSchool News

Working with people—in addition to working with the technology or materials or curriculum—means that cooperative interactions occur daily. For this reason, relational trust is a key factor within the learning environment to have engagement and success (Bryk & Schneider, 2002; Bryk et al.,

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Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers

Edsurge

Union Square Ventures, Emergence Capital and Leaders Fund also provided equity funding while BMO Technology and Innovation Banking Group provided debt financing. What Top Hat brings in technology, publishers like those two provide low-cost textbooks that will help Top Hat’s platform add more content for professors and students.

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