Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based billion in 2015.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2016

Professor and Program Director of Teaching, School of Education, American Public University. The role of visual art, music, dance, and theatre in K-12 education continues to evolve. The STEAM effort outlines why the arts are necessary: Arts education is a key to creativity. Imagination encircles the world.” Former U.S.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 21, 2017

Education Writer and Rankings Auditor. The 2018 QS World University Rankings are the largest guide to global higher education performance that QS, a London-based higher education think-tank, has produced since its inaugural edition of 2004. Jack Moran. QS Quacquarelli Symonds.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. It was updated shortly after, and only a few products now support SCORM 1.1. solved a lot of problems SCORM 1.1 It is the latest release and has all the updated features and tools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Thirty-eight percent of first-time students transfer schools within their first six years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. In order to tackle higher education’s credit-transfer challenge, the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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techlearning

JULY 25, 2018

Chicago IL – July 25, 2018 – CDI Computer Dealers , a leading provider of technology to schools, has earned an award from Microsoft for deploying more than 1 million OS licenses in North America. CDI partners with educators across schools and districts in North America to deploy and support technology in the classroom.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In spite of mankind’s amazing potential, it is an ironic truism of modernity that our US educational system is losing massive numbers of young learners each year to boredom, stress, and disengagement (1, 2). We know that labeling and stratifying children are a disservice to both the individual and the educational system. (6).

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2022

The de-facto industry standard for eLearning interoperability, SCORM defines a set of standards for developing eLearning products, and also the data models and communication methods to ensure coordination between the learning management systems (LMSs) and eLearning software. and SCORM 2004 3rd Edition are the most widely used versions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2019

It's a place where researchers are delving into topics around race, the global environment and how to prepare changing societies for new technology and the workforce. So, I took my own advice and followed through with that and returned to the University of Michigan where I'd been on the faculty from 1989 to 2004. Learn more here.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

MIND’s Chief Data Science Officer Andrew Coulson has made the case time and time again that the “one good study” paradigm is insufficient for edtech practitioners to base decisions on, and that a model of repeatable results at scale is one that should be adopted across the education industry. Dietrich, 2004), to name a few.

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techlearning

MARCH 26, 2018

CDI Computer Dealers , a leading provider of technology to schools, is helping schools transition to the Chromebook ecosystem and is now meeting the Chromebook needs of more than 2,000 schools and districts. asset disposition services for aging technology. CDI Computer Dealers is a one-stop-shop for schools’ Chromebook initiatives.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They provide everything needed to launch a hands-on, successful STEAM (Science, Technology Engineering Arts and Math) program. Our goal at CDI is to provide the tools and technology that schools need to be successful. o Educator resources. Students learn through creating games and inventions, and even generating their own music.

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techlearning

MARCH 12, 2018

The LIVE event, “ Play Ball: The Science Behind Sports Turf Management ,” will engage middle school students with an exclusive look at the scientific practices and innovative technologies used in sports turf management, showing the important role soil science plays in the world of sports. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.” By contrast, 57 percent are foreign born, with many coming from India and China, a local industry group estimates.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Educators, researchers and advocates still quibble over the precise definition of personalized learning, but most agree on this much: In these classrooms teachers don’t pass out identical worksheets and tests to every student. The Horizon Report, as it is known, began in 2004 and is one of the longest-running publications of its kind.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. Chelsea Stahl / NBC News. Employers do. Degree inflation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Dougherty shares their stories—along with his own observations and commentaries on the industry—in thoughtful and at times bemused prose. For years, he served as the business partner and editor for Tim O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Media, which itself has become an intellectual (and publishing) nexus for the technology community.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, and nano/mems technologies. In 2004 he was inducted in the Industry Hall of Fame. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about higher education. By contrast, 57 percent are foreign born, with many coming from India and China, a local industry group estimates.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This is a conference for librarians, instructional designers and educators to share their work and challenges, as well as for those who believe in the value of integrating instructional design into their practice to help them innovate and evolve library services for the future. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

This knowledge (especially in knowledge based industries) becomes the organization’s product. Educational Researcher, 81(1), 32-42. Second International Conference, iTrust 2004, Oxford, UK. British Journal of Educational Technology, 30(3), 201-215. British Journal of Educational Technology, 28, 199-217.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Alex Belous, education portfolio manager for the Cisco Foundation (which has supported MIND Research Institute since 2004), says that when he initially reviewed their program, its installation and training strategy was predominantly in-person, which wouldn’t scale. Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

We are fortunate to have many innovators in education. In the post-compulsory sectors of education too, there is a lot of innovation and creativity, but sometimes this can go relatively unnoticed. heloukee (online), Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Social Technologies at the University of Salford.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. James Gee is one of the most influential voices in the educational gaming community. He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. As education entrepreneurs know, growth in K-12 comes hard. Sometimes very hard.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Colleges were spending millions networking classrooms and residence halls, and I wondered about the absence of technology in the “front office” for teaching and learning. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique. Governance is shared, while accountability is diffuse. The idea was simple.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2011

When I came to New Milford High School in 2004 there were many amazing programs in place. Technology now allows the students and staff at NMHS to share in the authentic learning experiences taking place in Europe (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic). It is an exciting time to be in education. One was the Holocaust Study Tour.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One way or another, she hoped to keep educating young kids. The pandemic decimated the child-care industry, and the damage is not yet done. And more than a third of early childhood educators recently reported that they were considering leaving their programs, or the field itself, within the next year?—?a some 20,000 of them?

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Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

For service industries, whose business is knowledge, it is very important that knowledge is accessible at the individual, group and organizational level, especially during the collaborative process. For example, educational credentials (e.g. professional training programs, higher education programs).

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

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. They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 12, 2013

Dr. Caperton is a pioneer in using new-media technology for creative learning, innovation, and globalization through constructionist learning theory. Her book Children Designers received the 1991 Outstanding Book Award by the American Education Research Association (AERA).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Mourn and Organize. We need not hide our feelings.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Our first 2022 LearningRevolution.com mini-conference: " The Microschool Summit - Changing education, one small school at a time! " Education today has become large and focused on many things beyond the needs of learners, such as tests, curriculum and assessment. is being held online (and for free) this Thursday, May 19th, 2022.

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