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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. It gives unlimited access to a great library of well-written, humorous, and engaging stories that will captivate young readers. This is an app especially designed for kids of 12 and under.

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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

While VR has yet to be incorporated into advanced educational LMS s, there are a number of encouraging developments that are interesting to explore. Launched in 2003, by San Francisco-based Linden Labs, Second Life is a comparative dinosaur in Internet Years. How can teachers use VR in the classroom. Google Cardboard. Second Life.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. Why Interoperability Is so Critical for Empower Empower Learning, which offers an LMS and gradebook, is designed to support schools transitioning to a competency-based education model.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

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. But those that do survive and build successful enterprises could change the world forever.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

Considering that community college students oftentimes have access to fewer resources, it seems at first that this would be counter-intuitive. However, when you consider that the smartphone may be the main source of Internet access, it begins to make more sense. By replacing LMS threaded discussion with SMT (e.g. Cochrane, T.,

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Expertise, competency, and content

Connecting 2 the World

Knowledge of content can be measured, identified (especially lack of content knowledge), and/or recorded and stored for use by those who would not ordinarily have access to the knowledge. For example, a teacher in a rural area without access to internet service may not have access or use of learning management system (LMS) software.