Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Wired Campus

JULY 14, 2015

It’s difficult to keep students engaged — and awake — when assigning them readings from long and often dull textbooks. The idea is that professors can use zyBooks instead of traditional textbooks in order to help students engage with the material and perform better. Two researchers wanted to change that.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Her work in blended learning, student engagement, and social media has been featured by EdWeek, NBC News’s Education Nation, Instructor Magazine, Intel, ISTE, ASCD, Tech & Learning and the NEA. He is passionate about working with districts as they move to the cloud and increase students’ access to technology. About the Host.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. In many cases, the use of digital tools, platforms, and applications has helped to boost student engagement, grow pass rates, and increase retention.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2021

Field trips and guest speakers, therefore, became an important way to provide exposure to tech careers and to show students role models who looked like them. District administrators were able to obtain grants from companies such as Apple and Verizon and leverage their location to build partnerships with Boeing and other firms.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

.” The “Back on Track” study , being presented as a series of research briefs at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association this weekend, represents one of the first comprehensive examinations of how online credit recovery impacts student achievement and outcomes. A spokeswoman from K12 Inc.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

Contracts with publishing companies ensure equal availability and pricing for Idaho’s large population of rural schools. They are now in their fifth year of 1:1 with iPads for grades K-12, and have designed learning environments to create student engagement.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement. “And it’s not even close.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

Since last fall, Raimondi, along with technologists at 19 other school districts, have piloted a new service that automatically provides data in how students engage with different online education programs. K-12 schools, giving the company a strong pulse on what software teachers and students are using.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Students at the lowest-performing schools were supposed to get free transportation to attend a higher-achieving school, and districts had to contract with private tutoring companies to provide what were known as “Supplemental Education Services.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. Some employees hoped the company could turn around and stayed on without pay. “We Planet3 found its biggest backer in Rob Roy, CEO of Las Vegas-area data center services company Switch, which invested $10 million in the company in 2015. Nineteen states and D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

But while the pandemic made things worse, the enrollment downturn took hold well before it started; there were already two and a half million fewer students at colleges and universities by the time that Covid set in than there were in 2012. Another million and a half have disappeared since then.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. Students engaged in a group history project, for example, might need to demonstrate that they have learned to collaborate and investigate. We needed students to be more engaged.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Her professional blog, Always Learning, is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking examples of authentic student engagement. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. Father Goose).Sea

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The company says that participating schools are reporting academic gains for students who start out behind, as well as “greater student engagement, increased attendance, better behavior.” Some say students are getting distracted by working on the laptop or merely Googling for answers to quizzes.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. Companies like Kaltura, Panopto and Warpwire battled through the year for market share. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. Conferences ran streaming video events.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His activities with teachers and students are guided by a focus on learning-by-doing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

An associate professor in UVA’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures , Stepanic earned the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award in 2012. How do you keep your students engaged? If you’re not entertaining students enough, they’re not going to pay attention to you.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

“ Daniel Greenstein , who has overseen the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s work on postsecondary education since 2012, announced Monday that he would leave the foundation next month,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via eSchool News : “Why chatbots are not the future of student engagement.”

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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. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing.

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