Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Its author, Bryan Alexander, a tech consultant and education futurist, argues that there are many reasons why it didn’t catch on, including falling IT budgets at colleges after the 2008 financial crisis, and the difficulty of creating games in the educational context that work for a large enough audience to sustain their development.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The company was founded in 2008 and went public in 2015 (at $18 a share), and plans to continue to operate with its same management team after the acquisition. In recent months Instructure has faced tough questions about its corporate learning system, called Bridge, which has not lived up to internal expectations despite heavy investment.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. By Kathleen Costanza.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. It’s not just about adopting the technology,” Arnett said.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. The future of tech in schools isn’t suburban or urban.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

In 2008, Heidi Williams, author of the book “No Fear Coding,” began asking herself some retrospective questions about her role as a teacher at an International Baccalaureate School in Racine, Wisc. But she acknowledges that technology has accelerated the pace of change and practice. None of this, Fuhrman notes, is new.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Among those closely following college reopening plans : education technology providers that work with higher-ed institutions to build online degree programs. Some offer the full suite of technologies needed to build an online program, including course design, recruitment, enrollment and student support.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

The landscape of financial products and the ease with which technology can facilitate financial transactions have changed dramatically in recent years. Founded in 2008, EVERFI’s Impact-as-a-Service TM solution and digital educational content have reached more than 45 million learners globally.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Redefining effective learning: now that schools were forced to start offering online options, educators and students understand more about learning preferences, how to engage students, and what methods actually contribute to student success. Dr. Evans is the longest-serving woman executive in the education technology nonprofit sector.

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Blackboard Learning Strategy Data 98

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This led to a thesis on building student community through digital platforms. In 2008, there weren’t too many options for a digital platform to ask students to interact outside class. At a time when many teachers have been drowned in technology, Kasey asks why use an app to manage face-to-face relationships.

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Strategy Tools Gamification Moodle 89

Omega Notes

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But learning new ways of teaching and preparing new materials in response can be overwhelming, given a faculty member’s overall responsibilities (Loch & Reushle, 2008; Price & Oliver, 2007). Use this information to assess your selection and application of course material toward learning goals. Beena Giridharan.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 9, 2017

She discusses the idea of 'flexstyles' in her research (Kossek & Lautsch, 2008), a description of the ways people switch rapidly between modes as they cope with demands on their time. It can be nicely applied to digital environments as an explanation of the ways people create a work-life balance. Reference Kossek, E.

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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. Sommer and Paucek met two years ago at ASU GSV, an education technology conference that is also happening this week. I was thinking more towards future IPO,” he says.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Steven Anderson, Digital Learning and Relationship Evangelist, and Shaelynn Farnsworth, Literacy Consultant, joined Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO of edWeb.net for conversation with Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio on this topic. A PLN has helped Shaelynn learn from an extended network of educators how to to that.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

Organized by SETDA, the State Education Technology Directors Association, the edWebinar included a 2 nd grade teacher who had previously taught online only during inclement weather and never expected to be teaching remotely for an extended period. She has a decade of online teaching experience.

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Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

EdSurge recently connected with Ames to talk about the book and about her theory about the dangers of what she calls “charismatic technology.” In your book, you say the project is an example of “charismatic technology.” What is charismatic technology? What makes up a charismatic technology? It was all over the news.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. The Good, the Bad and the Wiki: Evaluating Student Generated Content as a Collaborative Learning Tool. Digital Learning: Repurposing Education.

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RafranzDavis.com

MARCH 31, 2015

One of those is Digital Promise , an independent, bipartisan nonprofit, authorized by Congress in 2008 as the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies. Earlier today, I came across a blog post written by Krista Moroder called, Words Matter: Let’s Talk About Learning, Not Technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

But just like after the 2008 financial crisis, I'm sure that University of Chicago will recover, and students who have had to take on debt will not. For her, the issue seems to be more about power and about who can afford to weather this financial storm. “I And I think that's one of the biggest differences.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

International sales accounts for about 20 percent of total revenue for Instructure, which was founded in 2008. As an example, he said that eight deals in the U.K. are delayed beyond 2019 and expressed uncertainty over whether the holds are related to Brexit, the ongoing discussions of how the U.K. plans on leaving the European Union.

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System LMS Company Moodle 63

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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Handbook Libraries Facebook Video 66

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Technology staff and district technology committee worked together on developing this. Training Options Training Menu - Sessions scheduled at technology. Teachers register through Eduphoria Workshop for Instructional Technology sessions organized by tech department. They give feedback and share with campus admin.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Tom Fitzgerald, respectively the CIO and IT Director of Brevard County Public Schools, have both seen first-hand how dramatically classroom technology needs have evolved over the years. Both have had long careers at Brevard and have worked closely to implement technology into the schools’ digital learning programs.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 74

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples. That was the case of Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1:1 initiative was imposed by the city government in 2008 with virtually no support for professional development, technological infrastructure, curricula or repair.

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 133

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A dean of digital learning at MIT, Krishna Rajagopal, resigned in protest , telling colleagues in an email that he had “serious continuing reservations” about the proposed direction. Since 2U started in 2008, it has fronted more than $1 billion to colleges and university partners. But there are many critics of the deal.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Jukes, Schaaf and Mohan (2015) identified nine key learning attributes of the digital generations. In the next post of this series, readers will explore these new attributes of digital learning and learn about tools and strategies to use in order to align with their students’ learning preferences. .

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education. Vrain Valley School District (CO).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Armstrong''s 2008 TED Prize wish asked to help her assemble the Charter for Compassion, a document around which religious leaders can work together for peace. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website. Our students are children of technology and the web.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

In addition, districts had unequal access to state systems depending on size, and despite the money spent on technology, there was inequity across the districts. Moving forward, Nebraska’s plan includes reducing the burdens on staff, increasing privacy and security, and making sure that the data is supporting teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

In 2008, Todd enrolled again in community college, taking one course at a time. “Working in the library is just a dream,” he says. “I I could never have imagined I could work in a library. My 18-year-old self would be like, ‘Really, you do that? That’s cool.’”

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Libraries Study Exercises Course 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Stakeholders—from educators and nonprofits to politicians and private companies—have all rowed in one direction to spur the strategic use of technology to ensure that all students have access to a great education. To date, more than 70 percent of schools are equipped with a Wi-Fi network that enables digital learning in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Technology is just a piece of a much more broad effort to individualize the education system and create more pathways for students and their unique needs. Virtual schooling and digital learning, in general, fit into our broader vision of where we would really like to see the education system go,” says Stepman. Gary Miron.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” “Can Startup College Minerva Reinvent The Ivy League Model For The Digital Age? million total.

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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