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Strategy, Serendipity, Sleepless Nights: 3 Edtech CEOs on ‘Great Exits’

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Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. Brekhus’ story was just one shared from the main stage during the last day of the Software & Information Industry Association’s Ed Tech Industry Conference in San Francisco this week.

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Parchment Merges with Credentials Solutions to Take On Transcripts and Certifications

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Steering this deal is Brentwood Associates, which acquired a controlling stake in Credential Solutions in 2018. Pittinsky also co-founded learning management services company Blackboard before co-founding Parchment in 2003. million academic records exchanges a year. Based in Scottsdale, Ariz.,

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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

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So I connected with people who run the Learning and the Brain conference and began to attend. My first book was in 2003 (1*), and that book was all about connecting research with effective teaching. million in 2018. So much research came out in the popular media and it seemed that teachers were becoming interested.

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How Harry Potter Has Brought Magic To Classrooms For More Than 20 Years

MindShift

“We knew that we were doing a good thing when at conferences…we had numerous parents tell us it was the first time that their kids had been excited to go to school since kindergarten,” VanDonge says. The series had a steady presence on this list and even topped it at times, through 2003. Copyright 2018 NPR.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement,” he said in a 2009 speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Since 2003, Georgia State has raised its graduation rates by 23 percentage points, which adds up to more than $60 million. Around the same time, philanthropic foundations weighed in.

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It’s Pedagogy Go With Location-Based Mobile Learning At The University Of South Australia

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We aim to continue to expand the breadth of our investigations regarding the pedagogical benefits and “best practice” deployment options of both playing and student design of LBMLGs in 2018 via a student-focussed international LBMLG challenge. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning 2016 , Sydney.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

Researchers have been doing their work in labs that were sometimes right across the quad from schools of education, but reading researchers and education researchers kind of live in separate universes; they go to different conferences, publish in different journals. We are not born wired to read. Emily Hanford | APM Reports.

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