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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

This project maps across existing data standards, making it possible to translate data at all levels and sectors of education and training, such as the MedBiquitous standards for health care and HROpen for human resources. The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) plans to update its existing standards based on this work.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. As one example, there are a tremendous amount of high quality resources produced by various organizations supported by the U.S. As an example, a quick search in YouTube for “calculate the area of a circle” returns over 55,000 videos. Last year, the U.S.

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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?

Education with Technology

tuttle, https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/classroom-grades-dont-reflect-student-learning/ ). The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Teachers in Lindsay are ready to shift from in-person to remote learning with minimal prep time — if a coronavirus outbreak requires a quarantine, for example, or a natural disaster causes school closures. In 2007, administrators were frustrated by the district’s poor outcomes and low graduation rate. Does it work?

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. Ken Campbell, director of charter schools for the Louisiana Department of Education between 2007 and early 2010.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5 A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5 Educators say little has changed since then.

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In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs

The Hechinger Report

Nationwide, about 65 percent of public high schools reported offering opportunities for students to participate in work-based learning during the 2007-08 school year, the last year data on the topic was collected by the National Center for Education Statistics.