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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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SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

This article will give you all the comprehensive details about SCORM and how you can benefit from it. SCORM 2004 When SCORM 2004 was launched, it was called SCORM 1.3. As of now, there is no news regarding an updated version of SCORM 2004. If you are hearing about SCORM for the first time, do not worry. What is SCORM?

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SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

This article will give you all the comprehensive details about SCORM and how you can benefit from it. SCORM 2004 . When SCORM 2004 was launched, it was called SCORM 1.3. As of now, there is no news regarding an updated version of SCORM 2004. If you are hearing about SCORM for the first time, do not worry. What is SCORM?

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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. We need models, we need colleagues, we need collaborators, we need partners,” she says.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program. He is the author of 24 books and several hundred articles about technology, learning, business, and human progress. Department of Education.

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

edWeb.net

The answer to these questions is yes, so said educational leaders and edtech specialists in an edLeader Panel, sponsored by Gaggle and CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate. Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004. Could instruction be adapted to keep learners engaged from afar? Dr. Neufeld has an M.B.A. About the Moderator.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

Sidenote: Someone from the Clayton Christensen Institute recently invoked the history of household appliances in an op-ed for Edsurge , asking “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” Much like the Radio Nurse, the air crib did not catch on, quite possibly because of that very Ladies Home Journal article.