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Research-based Benefits of Being Bilingual

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Bialystok, E. Bialystok, E. Bialystok, E., The study differentiates between the incidence rates of dementia and the age of symptom onset. Investigating a potential publication bias, the researchers analyzed conference abstracts from 1999 to 2012 related to bilingualism and executive control. Craik, F.I.M.,

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

In the previous posts on this topic our examination found that technology can and does help when it comes to improving completion rates , reducing tuition costs and helping universities to bridge the revenue gap. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. ” FY 2012 $0. Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: National Educational Technology Trends Study (NETTS). FY 2013 $0.

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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

Future profits from owning that data would all but guarantee the return on Amazon’s investment, even if the company were to provide its educational services at a steeply discounted rate that made it hard for anyone else to compete. And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one.

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Lessons from Digital Learning Day

Educator Innovator

The next DLD isn’t until next year, but thanks to social media it’s easy to look back at all the amazing ways kids engaged with digital learning at this year’s event. ( #DLDay even trended on Twitter!). In 2008, the high school graduation rate at Winterboro High School was 63 percent. By 2012, it had risen to 88 percent.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The goal is to give professors a dashboard that shows trends in student activities so they can identify spots in a course that are working or need to be improved.

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