Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

For example, currently two-thirds of community colleges have launched mobile apps, but CIOs largely don’t see the deployment as effective. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. Casey thought that might be the case, as a partial response.

Trends 40

Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. That’s why, for example, 92.9 Photo: Chris Berdik. This is an equity issue.

Broadband 89

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 89

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Now known as the Alpine Program, it was where 13-year-old Jonathan King, a child diagnosed with ADHD and depression, hanged himself in 2004 after being placed in a windowless “seclusion room.” Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It Again, the result is stunted learning.

Education 79

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