Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

million students access its digital course materials, including those at 750 of the top 1,000 higher education institutions in North America. Fountainhead was founded in 2002 and is based in Southlake, Texas. We want to provide everything a professor needs for a course and for their students,” Silagadze says. “We

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. Youngsters under the age of 18 whose families have incomes below the US poverty threshold; approximately 16 million of America’s poor are children who are often malnourished, live in substandard housing, and have unequal access to educational opportunities. Struggling Learners. Honigsfeld, A., &

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. West, an associate professor, and Professor Carl Bergstrom teach “Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital World” (although the actual course listing uses the more colorful language). Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

I’ve based my selections on the following criteria: ease of use — accounts are easy to set up with access to both the site and materials quick and intuitive. Albert’s test prep courses offer 40,000+ rigorous, subject-aligned questions written in the style of the AP, SAT, and ACT exams. Honorable Mention. USATest prep.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

see this 2002 Education Week report ). The types of activities that can count vary greatly—from sitting in workshops to taking college courses or earning National Board Certification. Oregon is establishing a system of educator networks to offer every teacher in the state access to professional learning opportunities.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course there are the usual suspects: cost and access, most schools probably feel that spending a limited digital budget on older students makes more sense, when K and 1st grade learners can get by with glue sticks and recycled materials. Why is digital PBL so rare in foundational and elementary phases? Why is that, indeed?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

It might be tempting for enthusiasts to say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question.” In the same way that we can have good (and not so good) traditional classroom courses, we can also have good (and not so good) online courses. Developing an online course. Read the original article.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Ongoing professional learning opportunities that provide teachers with constant access to support through continually improving online and offline resources are essential for truly effective instruction. However, many of us still get stuck when attempting to approach this topic. Knowing the basic concept of a method isn’t enough.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Department of Education’s most recent study of the topic, the percentage of public school districts whose high school students took distance learning courses rose from 30 percent in 2002 to 53 percent in 2010. Advanced Placement courses are still a major part of that preparedness. exams that year alone.

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Learning Digital Divide Course Analysis 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

Students after they graduate from high school typically don’t have access to the professional support they might during the year, but since 2017 Lancaster’s school district has continued college counseling into the summer, helping students keep track of all the things they need to do in order to stay on track for college.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

see this 2002 Education Week report ). The types of activities that can count vary greatly—from sitting in workshops to taking college courses or earning National Board Certification. Oregon is establishing a system of educator networks to offer every teacher in the state access to professional learning opportunities.

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Policies Assessment Training Professional Learning 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide access and opportunity they might not otherwise have.”. As a result, rural students often lag their peers in advanced courses, and also in college attendance and completion. Students in Holmes County do not have the same benefits as students in more affluent areas,” Meeks said.

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 66

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

Recognition of this new reality is what’s fueling the growth of online courses and programs, bootcamps, apprenticeships, graduate-level education and other forms of upskilling and professional credentialing. The typical reimbursement amount is down as well.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

They are increasingly pervasive and accessible. For everyone of us who own them, mobile phones are changing our lives, influencing our decisions about how we interact with each other, how we access and consume information, how we work, entertain ourselves and purchase our goods. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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Mobility Mobile Learning Social Media Accessibility 65

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The Georgetown center estimates that college graduates earn, on average, $1 million more over the course of a lifetime than high school graduates. Wages climbed for college grads in the 1970s and 80s, says Mishel, but since 2002 wage growth for people with a bachelors has been stagnant. and an unmet demand for these workers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

percentage points between 2002 and 2015. It could also be that there are more culturally relevant activities or courses,” Nichols said, noting, however, that many HSIs have significant room for improvement. On average, 53.6 percent of Latinos earn a bachelor’s degree within in six years, compared with 63.3 percent of whites.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Way back in 2002, when Friendster was the biggest social network and people were gathering in Internet cafes, the State of Maine implemented the first 1:1 laptop initiative in the country. Accessibility: The iPad includes built-in features like text-to speech, dictation, and word prediction.

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iPad Laptops Classroom Report 92

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). Continued tomorrow References Bach, S., and Lewis-Smith, J. and Moonen, J.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 13, 2011

The LearnCentral event page is [link] Gary Lopez is the Founder and Executive Director of Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE, [link] ), a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping meet society’s need for access to quality education, and the manager of the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) and HippoCampus ( [link] ).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Rodriguez’s placement test scores dictated at least a year of these low-level math courses. It prohibits these schools from placing students in remedial courses unless those students are “highly unlikely to succeed in transfer-level coursework.”. They cost the same as regular classes but don’t count toward a bachelor’s degree.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Information becomes content when there is a situation to apply it (Nonaka, 1999, Yaklief, 2010), but does not require a depth of understanding to access or transfer. Once created, individual, groups, departments, or the organization can control the dissemination and access to a larger number of people.

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

Philly Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2017

I didn’t at the time, realize that, by no fault of my own, I had privilege; that I had a membership card to a part of society that not everyone has access to. This was, of course, my own psychological wall, but I can remember feeling it from time to time. Exhibit A : It was not my roommate’s job to explain herself to me.

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Course Accessibility Learning Education 59

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The first autism support program in the United States began at Marshall University in West Virginia in 2002. “If he were going off to a school that did not have this kind of a program, I would be calling him every day,” Geoff Calkins said.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality of provision and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). and Lewis-Smith, J. and Lewis-Smith, J. and Moonen, J.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 24, 2018

Personally, we purchased our first computer that could access the internet in our senior year of college. We both loved that it gives you a short description, suggested age level, time to complete, skills taught and even a link to share to Google Classroom for easy access. Jennifer Cauthers. cauthersj.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2017

Having such conversations with students can be helpful to understand the kinds of prices that are paid for access to information. He came to USA Today in 2002 and in 2005 broke the Armstrong Williams “pay for punditry” story that launched a widespread look at government propaganda. Follow her on Twitter @mluhtala.

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Libraries eBook Social Media Report 43

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide access and opportunity they might not otherwise have.”. As a result, rural students often lag their peers in advanced courses, and also in college attendance and completion. Students in Holmes County do not have the same benefits as students in more affluent areas,” Meeks said.

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Bell is currently an adjunct faculty member for the San Jose State University iSchool where he teaches courses on design thinking and open education librarianship. These twelve tips can lead to substantive fundamental pedagogical change in online course delivery.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Bryant focuses on promoting best practices in course design for higher education, instructional support for Emory’s learning management system (Canvas), and managing the Instructional Design + Technology Community of Practice (IDTCoP) for faculty, support professionals and course content developers across Emory University and Emory Healthcare.

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Libraries Conference Online Learning OER 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Starting in 2002, the foundation has dedicated more than $40 million of those dollars to early education initiatives, and the results have been transformative, said foundation CEO Maria Jimenez-Laura. He said he even enrolled in college courses while still in high school.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Shannon DeJager began her long quest for a university degree 15 years ago, completing courses including biology, microbiology, and organic chemistry at what was then called Georgia Perimeter College in the hope of going into nursing. Colleges don’t get paid for courses students already took somewhere else. We’re going into Year 15.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 2, 2009

The following was written as a reflection on what I learned during the second week of the Teaching With Technology course I am currently taking as part of my masters in educational technology leadership program. 6) was again reaffirming what I have come to know as best practices in the use of technology in instruction. license agreement.

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Technology Strategy Learning Training 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

We have to make space for them to access the content.”. Finding teachers who can lead high school-level courses in two languages is hard. One reason seems to be that it gives them access to grade-level content that otherwise might be unavailable for months or years as they learn English but end up falling behind in other subjects.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

Hubbli

OCTOBER 24, 2016

According to a 2002 paper by Dr. Karen Mapp, parent involvement in schools helps students earn higher grades, boost test scores, improve social skills, and, perhaps most importantly, graduate. Of course, creating surveys won’t do you any good if no one fills them out. Do not Miss: Keep These Things In Mind When Using Surveys.

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