Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. In Vancouver, Wash.,

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. You can reach her on Twitter at @sschappy. In Vancouver, Wash.,

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

From 2009 to 2011, following the book’s publication, the Hume Foundation made grants to Rocketship in the Bay Area and Carpe Diem in Yuma, AZ, two charter schools that were already implementing blended learning, to promote their models. Innosight Institute later changed its name to the Clayton Christensen Institute.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. The district has followed a winding road to get here, though.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. Employers are providing skills based training to their staff utilizing unbundled, SaaS resources like LinkedIn Learning. It allows about 1,200 eligible students in Washington D.C. Its future looks bright.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

When Utah passed the law creating a Course Access program in 2011, school districts panicked over what it would do to their budgets. “We Canyons School District, for example, went from having no online students in 2011 to 1,900 this past year. Data on the Florida Virtual School show a similar trend; in Utah, a stunningly low 6.15

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