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An audience with.

Learning with 'e's

I published the results of the study in 2009, revealing that when they were aware of an audience, students raised their game. I worked alongside them and we soon had our first success, when one of my BA students, Dan Kennedy was successful in publishing his work in an online open access journal called The Student Educator.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Enrollments are down 15 percent since 2009 — even though more and more students want global experiences, such as international internships and study abroad programs, and a chance to practice languages they do speak. The Modern Language Association reported a 9.2 percent drop in college language class enrollments and a 5.3

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

This approach, says Goldman Sachs’ Victor Hu, offers “an efficient, relatively inexpensive way for overseas investors to access the U.S. In the Minerva Project, TAL is much more interested in the technology that allows the company to run online, asynchronous seminars (dubbed “ The Active Learning Forum ”) than launching new universities.

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EDUCAUSE 2015: my sessions and some observations

Bryan Alexander

Tuesday morning was my preconference seminar on “Building an Emerging Technology and Futures Capacity in Your Organization” The goal here wasn’t to present on future trends for education and technology, but rather to help campus information professionals figure out how to better think about the future themselves.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people.

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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

The Hechinger Report

Supalla, who opened the first of her Discovery Kidzone Learning Centers in 2009, noticed that children were having more emotional challenges and that their social skills were declining. Supalla also treated her staff to lunches and hosted seminars on mental health and financial planning to address their personal concerns. “If

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. Two of the largest companies in 2009 are now bankrupt, and two more are in the process of being taken private. Students say they were pressured to give good reviews.