Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. As part of the arrangement, 2U also paid $13 million to Flatiron School, a coding bootcamp owned by WeWork, to use the school’s online learning platform.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

I have been a full-time remote professional for nearly 12 years, ever since I went from working at home a day or two a week to doing so full time in 2008. The landscape has changed a lot since then, according to Flexjobs analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. at least half-time grew 115 percent between 2005 and 2017.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

Data use is another key aspect of teaching secondary students online, as it shows what is working and what needs to be changed. The last data point can identify areas where further clarification or modeling is needed. Learn more at att.com/aspire. Lisa Cutshall is Director of Partner Engagement at Five Star Technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Don’t try to migrate an in-person experience into an online format. Surely a lot has changed!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

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. For universities and researchers, it’s radically altered the way they interact with Big Data on a daily basis. .

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Kim had previously been an Executive Vice President at Edison Learning, a for-profit education management organization. Prior to that, he founded Provost Systems an online learning platform acquired by Edison Learning in 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. Often that involved thinking differently about how, when and where teaching and learning actually occur. percent in 2008-09 to 84.9 Through it all, the key to St.

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Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 63

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a way, that’s not surprising, given concerns about the safety of in-person instruction, the quality of online learning and the lack of clarity around whether jobs will recover from the economic crisis, and if so, which ones. We don’t want to lose a generation of people.”.

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Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

By 2019, about 50 percent of high school courses will be delivered online" — Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn (2008). Online learning will be the "silver lining" of the coronavirus — Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy (2020). It's a great moment" for learning — Andreas Schleicher, head of education at the OECD (2020).

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Khan Academy Course Conference Report 126

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). The company has raised some $77.5 They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

To give further context, I’ve sorted them alphabetically, into four categories; (1) those organizations that are instructionally-focused; (2) those that provide supports for technology leadership; (3) those that focus on connectivity and access; and (4) those that focus on data privacy and security. Data and Privacy and Security.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

Some recent survey data suggests that we might not be alone. One poll, from the nonprofit Learning Heroes, found that two-thirds of surveyed parents say they’re more involved with their child’s education today than ever before. Not every teacher is adjusting to online learning on the fly like Adao.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

Credit scores to boost student success Kona Jones, director of online learning at Richland Community College in Illinois, was brought on in 2008 to improve student success rates, which at the time were hovering around 65 percent—not “horrendous,” she says, but still not good enough. The most significant?

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

When Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn published “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008, the current wave of education technology was still finding its footing. First, online learning would grow rapidly in K-12 schools. The book posited two predictions. But scale was not the endgame.

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Technology EdTech Education Outcomes 91

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics. 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).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

ERS estimates that making up for learning losses, as well as increasing necessary social-emotional support for students, will cost between $12,000 to $13,500 per pupil in those districts over the next five years. Related: New data — Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones.

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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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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Advocates of online learning say programs like UPSTART, which is free for most families, may increase access to educational opportunities, which can be critical to ensuring the youngest learners don’t start behind and stay behind. Data from UPSTART show students involved in the Mississippi pilot program grew in literacy skills.

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Laptops Accessibility Online Learning Company 155

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

And recent data tracking the rate of financial aid applications shows that the effects of the pandemic may be leading fewer students to consider starting or returning to college in the fall — potentially a major, long-term blow to U.S. social mobility and economic growth.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

Well, for me EDUPUNK (all caps, like EDUCAUSE) was one of those outlandish metaphors I threw out there to try and explain the state of educational technology back in 2008. I think the success of MOOCs, at least initially, might be linked to the fact that administrators around the world started to pay attention to online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Fewer than a third of students at Perdoceo campuses graduate within eight years; one of them, a branch of American Intercontinental University, had a 19 percent graduation rate, according to the most recent federal data. Ashford University, owned by Zovio, had a 25 percent graduation rate in the most recent federal data.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 4, 2017 State auditor introduces legislation to protect students' personal information | The Turner Report → Missouri Senate Bill 478 would require school districts to notify parents or guardians of a data breach involving student information.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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.” ” It’s an inevitable move, or so the story goes.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Keep that in mind when you see Course Report’s data touted, cheerleading the coding bootcamp trend.). ” Online lending company SoFi (one of the companies in Peter Thiel ’s portfolio) runs invitation-only cocktail parties, according to this NYT profile on the company. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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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.” Via Technical.ly : “ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative partners with Philly DA’s office on tech, data.” Vista Higher Learning has acquired SANTILLANA USA.

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