Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

“Then shift the conversation from online as a money-maker, to online as serving your mission,” Crews said. This moment could also herald a shift in how high school juniors and seniors view online learning options. Mark Warner (D-Va.),

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A 2008 state audit found that parents were pleased with how much they learned with these home visits. Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach. A virtual learning center is different than distance or online learning. Hughes emphasized, “This is not distance learning. Her answer: Do it virtually.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. Here’s a look at how the education company is responding. But these massive open online courses still continue to shape the way people around the world learn and access education. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A Starter Kit For Instructional Designers When EdSurge columnist Amy Ahearn graduated from college in 2008, she had never heard of instructional design—let alone anticipate that she would soon have a career in it.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

Once students have created their avatar they can engage in curated group experiences such as visiting other countries without leaving the classroom, or their homes in the case of distance learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. million persons under the age of 18.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. In 2008, Adam Rubin and Todd Kern co-founded 2Revolutions , or 2Rev, because they believed the field of education was siloed, preventing innovation at scale.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

- Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Buoyed by unemployment benefits, Shareef enrolled, and four months later, he started work as a junior web developer for a retail company in his hometown of Cincinnati. Shareef’s mother saw a TV commercial for a program that offered 12 weeks of training for technology careers, tuition-free. We don’t want to lose a generation of people.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In addition, Pennsylvania students will receive a 10 percent discount off the tuition at Southern New Hampshire University, making the out-of-state online degree cheaper than what they would likely otherwise pay at a public university in the state. “It’s a dynamic, challenging environment.”

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

Since many districts didn’t have a digital learning plan in place for an event like a global pandemic, they are scraping together varied approaches of online learning that are evolving as the situation changes. We’re building the plane while it’s in the air,” Paradise said of teachers trying to adjust to online learning.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 29, 2013

Many tribes ''embrace the status quo and drown out any tribe member who dares to question authority and the accepted order'' (Godin, 2008, p 4). Social media tools offer members of the tribe, even a tribe as large as a multi-national company, the means with which to make their individual voices heard above the cacophony of daily working.

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Social Media Facebook Industry LMS 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This summer yielded a surprising announcement in the world of online education: that edX, founded by Harvard University and MIT a decade ago as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online education providers, had agreed to sell its operations to a for-profit company, 2U.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Melanie S Toledo Library Manager, Ak-Chin Indian Community Opening Keynote Melanie Toledo has been the Library Manager of the Ak-Chin Indian Community Library since 2008. During his tenure, the Kansas City Public Library received multiple awards, including IMLS’s National Medal for Museum and Library Service in 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. Schools are now tasked with making up for those kinds of learning losses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

Among those experts is Erik Black, an associate professor of pediatrics and education at the University of Florida, who wrote his dissertation on parental involvement in virtual schooling at the high school level way back in 2008. Not every teacher is adjusting to online learning on the fly like Adao.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. If it’s bad—and you’re scrambling to find an apartment in a competitive housing market (ahem, Bay Area)—it can feel like a burden, and worse, one you can’t do much about.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In fact, the frequency of treating alone accounts for most of the variation in learning outcomes…” Plug this into the digital world, and. Notice the, ah, interesting case of a company recruiting unpaid tutors for online learning (2100). ” (1990) Even mentoring gets the treatment. and get reading.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The program, called UPSTART, was developed by a nonprofit company and advertises itself as a kindergarten-readiness program. LeMya’s mother hoped it would help her daughter learn more of the foundational skills she’ll need to get a leg up in school. In 2008, the state’s legislature provided $2.5 Waterford’s UPSTART is free.

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Laptops Accessibility Company Online Learning 152

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

After clawing his way through college, however, he had a distinguished career in education — first as a middle school science teacher (where he and Bette met), then as a long-time member and chair of New Hampshire’s state board of education, and now as president of the nonprofit National Center for Competency-Based Learning.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

Yeah, I quite disagree,” added Maria Andersen, CEO and co-founder of Coursetune, a company that makes software designed to help colleges redesign their curriculum. As a result of that, universities have been slow to catch on to things like online learning as a broad structure. One example is with the big OPM movement right now.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To date, Stephen’s work has been featured by Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, TNT, Disney, Discovery TV, NPR, Teach Middle East, The Gulf National, and countless others. Roger Schank Chairman and CEO, Socratic Arts Roger Schank.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Capella University, owned by the same company as Strayer, is running ads promoting its flexibility in “uncertain times” and promising would-be transfer students that they can earn a bachelor’s degree in as little as a year. In recent earnings calls, many companies emphasized the quality of the education they provide.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics. Should it be revisited?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Udacity’s CMO Shernaz Daver left that company.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this? You can fill out a form online to offer some names.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” Via the Journal Sentinel : “More than 300 Kettle Moraine parents sign petition against online learning platform.” Speaking of pseudoscientific products, Education Week reports that “ DeVos -Supported ‘Brain-Performance’ Company Loses Appeal Over Misleading Advertising.” million total.

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