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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

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Student graduation and thruput of students is dropping and our educational delivery method for our mobile, digitally driven next generation is failing. He worked on the 3D feature film Valiant in 2003, after which he worked on Ant Bully. Video games are inherently a learning tool. Tuition is at an all-time high and rising.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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From this second fund New Markets has already made several investments: Practice (formerly ApprenNet), a mobile video-based learning tool; Credly , a digital credentialing platform; and Noodle Partners. A fourth deal is expected to close sometime this month.

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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. Using video conferencing tools, teachers are now able to take part in global conferences, webinars, and workshops anywhere anytime. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around.

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

eSchool News

Video: May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications. Mobile apps and tablets have incredible educational potentials but continues to be a controversial topic, with many parents divided on how much access they should grant their children and at what ages.

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With the Help of Google and SF Muni, A Bus Sets Off to Serve City's High School Dropouts

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The organization made its mark in 2003 when they created the nation’s first county jail charter school. The idea for a mobile classroom started in 2015, as Good and his team become increasingly concerned about the conditions their students were learning in. There were puddles on the ground, students playing video games, paint peeling.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). Smartphones are great for watching short videos or listing to music. ANDERSON, T (2003).

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

Doug Levin

FY 2003 $700,500,000. Department of Education video. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Mathematica Policy Research, 2003). Dear Colleague Letter: Resource Comparability , which emphases technology-related equity issues (October 2014).

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