eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. Providing these new opportunities for educators and students supports our long-standing commitment to increasing skill building and advancing tech equity in education across the U.S.”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

In fact, online learning classes have been a thing for a while now. Two of the most well-known e-learning platforms – edX and Coursera – were both launched back in 2012 and were gaining new students every year. Overall, there was a positive trend in the popularity of online education, mostly due to its accessibility.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

In 2012, First Book , a nonprofit that provides affordable learning materials to kids in need, approached the publishers of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and asked: Can you make a bilingual version of the popular children’s book? And many of them have expressed a desire for digital tools. In 2012, the Center received a $1.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Open educational resources have gone global and may help make learning more accessible, equitable and inclusive around the world. For example, students in Egypt generally lack access to high-quality textbooks, and those that are available are usually expensive and written in English, not Arabic. In the U.S.,

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2015

E-rate helps schools and libraries get affordable Internet access by discounting the cost of service based on the school’s location – urban or rural – and the percentage of low-income students served. The funding requested by schools reached nearly $5 billion in 2012 and 2013, according to District Administration magazine.

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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 2012, it had risen to 88 percent.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

The principles of powerful learning guide educators to design learning experiences that are personal and accessible ; authentic and challenging ; connected and collaborative ; and inquisitive and reflective. Want to know more about Powerful Learning? Immordino-Yang, M. Christodoulou, J. A., & Singh, V.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’re exited to launch SchoolLibraryNJ , a evolving project designed to address inequitable access to resources for K12 schools and libraries and to present the value of librarians in digitally curating resources for teaching and learning. Divided into two sections, WA Digital TeachKit.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

It offers access to Coursera’s online library to workforce development agencies that want to reskill recently unemployed workers. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors, Coursera was one of a trio of startups that spearheaded the hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for short.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Loosely defined as affordable programs with strong learning and career outcomes, hybrid colleges often share three design principles: intensive wrap-around student support that directly meets student needs; digital learning programs (often competency-based); and sustainable funding that does not ask students to carry significant debt.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

In the conversation around digital learning, there’s a sobering statistic that often goes overlooked: 74. It’s the percentage of students around the whole who lack consistent internet connectivity—and access to many of the tools and online courseware that some have hailed as the solution to education gaps.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

and alternative credentials like boot camps and certificates have emerged as powerful stepping stones to careers in the digital economy. It was the institutions that had existing digital education investments and strategies that were truly ahead of the game.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. ” FY 2012 $0. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). FY 2013 $0.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2020

Crash Course is the creation of brothers John and Hank Green, who started the YouTube channel in 2012. But he liked ASU’s focus on reaching a broad range of students and making college more accessible. Called Study Hall , the new series will feature new episodes every Tuesday, starting with a course on writing composition.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

At the turn of this century, adventurous faculty ventured out into cyberspace on their own, propelled by their own talent, accompanied merely by a laptop and internet access. million from 2012 to 2019. None of those costly resources were essential drivers of online enterprises as they are today.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. For one thing, edX made its platform open source, meaning anyone can have access to the computer code. In terms of our strategy, we’ll simply double down on increasing access,” says Agarwal. It’s important to our partners.” Where is edX hoping to go next? “In

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

FutureLearn launched with a dozen university partners in 2012, the same year that other MOOC platform providers—namely Coursera, edX and Udacity—also launched and whose growth have somewhat overshadowed FutureLearn’s (at least here among U.S. audiences). Last year, staffing conglomerate Adecco Group acquired General Assembly for $412.5

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other. The institutional learning management system affords a safe and reliable albeit often less than inspiring space for learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

“In today’s digital world, the school library has evolved from a place to merely check out books to one that offers opportunities for collaboration, project-based learning, and online access,” said Alliance for Excellent Education President Bob Wise.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

This approach teaches K-12 students to think creatively and engage in other subject areas using skills learned in the arts. STEAM utilizes the arts along with traditional STEM subjects as “access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking,” according to EducationCloset, a digital learning hub for educators.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But she thinks it’s a great resource for educators, especially because it is open-access and freely available. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. Just a few years old, it’s still a “fledgling journal,” Archambault says. Sometimes we have to really recruit manuscripts.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

So far, the pandemic has revealed the challenges of conducting education remotely as well as uneven access to Wi-Fi and devices such as laptops. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. million kids statewide lacked access to Wi-Fi and computers.

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Doug Levin

JULY 12, 2017

For those without access to the original text, the Summer 2008 edition (Vol. Based on a prediction of logarithmic growth, that would suggest – if the prediction was correct – that we should be a substantial way toward the “substitution of online-delivered learning for live-teacher instruction” (p.98).

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 7, 2015

.” Evan was selected from a pool of 13 distinguished candidates for identifying the national problem of school broadband access and pursuing a solution with unwavering dedication. Under Evan’s leadership, we played a crucial role in the effort to modernize E-rate , resulting in the FCC’s commitment to an additional $2.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As demand for low-cost, high-quality materials increased during the Great Recession, the nonprofit project shifted from curation to creation, publishing its first five free textbooks in 2012. So in 2012, OpenStax raised $5 million in grant support to produce five titles for large introductory classes. colleges use at least one.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Since the pivot to remote learning began, many school districts have struggled to determine which families lack access at home. By giving schools the data that shows which students need access, we can speed up the process of getting kids back to learning as quickly as possible.”. EducationSuperHighway estimates that 9.7

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Thursday, September 27th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Tom Vander Ark on his book, Getting Smart : How Digital Learning is Changing the World. psid=2012-09-27.1459.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 billion in scholarship and grant programs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2015

In 2012, Downing developed basic goals for his school, including providing every classroom with a high-quality projector, finding ways to give every student access to some type of technology each day, and increasing internet access. Next page: Downing’s tips for administrators and teachers.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

And though Gen Z is starting to graduate this year, there’s still a massive amount of them within various levels of education—nearly 73 million (born between 1995 and 2012), according to Time magazine. Here’s a hint: Don’t expect Millennials.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 10, 2015

A lot has happened in the world of digital learning since ExcelinEd’s Digital Learning Now initiative and Getting Smart released the first Smart Series paper in August 2012. Originally published October 2012, updated and re-released Summer 2015. Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

And to provide a stable structure for the school day, she keeps to routines and established office hours, follows the Indiana time recommendations for continuous learning, and disconnects in the evening. In regard to the online content she provides, Olivia focuses on making it accessible through the use of pictures, emojis, and screen shots.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Ability to access Google Docs and Sheets is needed. Register here!

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

However, since 2012—when MOOCs gained widespread recognition —instructional designers have made significant strides in designing scalable learning experiences that people successfully finish. We’ve introduced tiered pricing models to make these paid programs equally accessible to students in places ranging from Uganda to the U.K.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2016

Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, and Illinois are among the states partnering with myON to offer unlimited summer access to students. Since 2012, myON has provided a turnkey program to help educators encourage students to read “just right” books during the summer months. myON’s “Get in the Game and Read!” .

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

The question is, are the teachers within a school, grade, or subject area accessing the same toolbox? During the edWebinar, “ Transform Learning: Track Results for Chromebooks, Google Suite, and Every Application,” presenters Kyle Berger, Chief Technology Officer at Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, TX, and Matthew X. Joseph, Ed.D.,

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