Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Count education-focused firms among them. groups, including Owl Ventures and Rethink Education , raised new tranches of money in the past year; Reach Capital is currently raising its third fund. Matt Greenfield, managing director of Rethink Education, also says activity has been about the same so far. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

As educators, we craft learning experiences based on the pedagogical foundations set by those who came before us. In higher education, the student persistence and retention strategies used by institutions all over the world are built on the seminal works of great theorists such as John H. million persons under the age of 18.

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Education Industry Training Strategy 192

Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The great news is that digital natives want to learn. It’s just up to educators to help them succeed in finding answers while staying safe in a digital environment. This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 18, 2017

Published in 2008, "Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns" predicted 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.

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Learning Education Online Learning Trends 170

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

However, educators need to tread carefully or run the risk of technology making teaching and learning less student-centered instead of more and failing to prepare our students to be successful adults. . The mission of educators then becomes figuring out how to provide 1:1-level results with group instruction --the problem of scale.

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Doug Levin

JULY 12, 2017

Published in 2008, “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” predicted 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.

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Doug Levin

JULY 12, 2017

I revisited the central prediction of the first edition of Disrupting Class (2008), which was 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. For those without access to the original text, the Summer 2008 edition (Vol.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. 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. The deal is expected to close in two months.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. The practice is one in which the teacher of record delivers whole-class learning virtually, and an in-person monitor—often a substitute teacher—tracks behavior and ensures students do their work.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Blended Learning vs. Hybrid Learning. As mentioned earlier, blended learning and hybrid learning are often used as interchangeable terms. There are, however, a few distinctions between the educational strategies that are important to note. Computers & Education, August 2008, 51(1), pp.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2008, it was global experience. But as my colleague Ryan Craig likes to say, no one has ever gone broke betting against the pace of change in higher education. Since 2014, Salesforce has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop curriculum for Trailhead, its free online learning platform.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

To help teachers with the transition to online instruction, an edWebinar hosted by SETDA featured educators sharing what is working for them as they teach students online during the COVID-19 crisis. Candice Dodson is the Executive Director of the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA).

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Students and Parents in Cooperative Education (SPICE) Family Literacy Program serves central Maine’s Regional School Unit #3 (RSU 3). SPICE’s mission is to integrate childhood and adult education. So, SPICE educators went straight to their adult learners’ homes. Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach.

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Technology Blended Learning Laptops Course 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

The result could topple the already fragile ecosystem of schools in this country and devastate public education for years. With just days to go until the new school year starts in many places, parents and educators are realizing that there are no good choices. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In the Putnam County (TN) School System— a rural school district with 23 schools spread across 400 miles—our personalized learning approach has allowed us to reshape education for students on a variety of fronts. Intentional design.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The focus is on tertiary education.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

These days, using multimedia tools is a foregone conclusion for the well-resourced teacher; technology is enabling greater interactivity and engagement between students as well as with the information they are required to learn. billion by 2025, while the education sector will attract 15 million users. Google Cardboard. Second Life.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.”

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Since the university typically charges less for online courses than face-to-face ones, the students want a refund for the difference. It really isn't the same quality of an education from my experience and the experience of many other students as this isn't what I and many other students signed up for,” Donners says. ”At

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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 He’s not far off.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

So what will be the future of higher education, and how will it survive against this hostile backdrop? Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. The first, undesirable form of disruption stops us from getting to where we wish to be.

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Education Conference Technology Online Learning 61

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse. Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning. The number of new students is down 23 percent. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 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. Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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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. The field has deep roots in distance education, human computer interaction, and visual design.

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Learning Confluence

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I would like to get on with my career in Higher Education (what career?)… I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. This post brings back memories of the many technical issues we had due to ‘those who know more than educators’ continued to block Web 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

This belief was also the basis for the in Digital Natives and Immigrants theory (Prensky, 2001), a persistent discourse that has greatly influenced the thinking of educators in recent years. Bennett et al (2008) assert that there is no clear evidence that multi-tasking is a new phenomenon and exclusively the preserve of younger learners.

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Technology STEM Tools Online Learning 71

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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Learning With Lucie

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Yesterday I had the absolute privilege to join thousands of amazing educators learning and sharing their learning as part of the Google for Education on Air Event - If Takes A Teacher. I learned so much from watching fellow educators share their insights into teaching and learning throughout the day.

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Personalized Learning Google Tools Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances.

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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. Humanizing remote work is just as important as humanizing online learning, but more on that later! Census Bureau and U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Southern New Hampshire University used to be unknown outside New England but it’s quickly grown since the 2008 recession to become a national online degree giant with more than 130,000 students. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2018

Secretary of Education in the 1990s and early 2000s, and previously as Governor of South Carolina for eight years, I saw the devastating impact of under-funded and under-resourced rural schools, especially in high-poverty communities. Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? Future of Learning.

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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. Most publishers are now granting access to educators, as long as they follow a few rules that vary among publishers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In this MarketScale EdTech Today podcast from host Kevin Hogan, remote learning expert Sal Khan and Anne Wintroub, director of Social Innovation for the AT&T Foundation, discuss a variety of topics related to edtech, COVID learning, and connectivity. and beyond, we very swiftly created a Distance Learning Family Connections Fund.

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