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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

Thu, 09/27/2018 - 15:46. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where teachers can turn to fund personalized learning initiatives! The number of states with policies in place to promote and facilitate competency-based systems has grown from just a handful in 2004 to 43 states in 2018. eli.zimmerman_9856. by Wendy McMahon.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

Edsurge

He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. In 2018 it acquired a competitor in VeriCite , along with Gradescope , a Berkeley, Calif.-based billion, the deal is the larger than the total amount that edtech startups raised in 2018, which reached a new peak last year at $1.45 billion purchase of Lynda in 2015.

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Omidyar Network Spins Off Education Portfolio Into Independent Investment Firm

Edsurge

Since 2018, the investment and philanthropic vehicle started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, has spun off five independent firms that grew out of its investment activities. In March 2018, Omidyar spun out its emerging technologies portfolio as Spero Ventures. billion in various sectors since its inception in 2004.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

To do that, it has partnered with the Empirical Educator Project , a group of colleges and edtech companies led by e-Literate , a popular education blog, that holds summits and encourages participants to try each others’ tools and approaches.

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

techlearning

Champions of product innovations: Defining, developing, and validating a measure of champion behavior. Journal of Business Venturing, 20(5), 641-661. Retrieved from: [link] 8# Greenhalgh, T., Macfarlane, F., Bate, P., & Kyriakidou, O. Diffusion Of Innovations In Service Organizations: Systematic Review And Recommendations. & Latané, B.

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Holding Ourselves to a Higher Standard

MIND Research Institute

This has resulted in math results for 39 states, in addition to the District of Columbia, across numerous years of administration, with some states having data going back to the 2004/2005 school year. We hope this quasi-experimental methodology can be utilized by and large to help bring more accountability to the edtech space.