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Do You Know the Edtech Adoption Rules in Your State? SETDA’s New Guide May Help.

Edsurge

All four are profiled in case studies that detail their policies, funding allotments, adoption processes and notable challenges. State Procurement Case Studies: Spotlight on Digital Materials Acquisition is available online. . But these deals don’t always pan out.

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What’s an HBX Again? Nevermind. Harvard Business School Rebrands Its Online Offerings.

Edsurge

Harvard’s business school launched its first online courses in 2013 in a unit it called HBX. Whether or not the case method can work online is a question that we haven’t answered yet,” Brian C. Kenny, a spokesperson for what was then HBX, told The Chronicle of Higher Education back in 2013.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). The study also underscores the role of teachers’ visions in guiding their adaptive teaching decisions, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of literacy instruction. In their quantitative study of over 300 Finnish first graders, Nurmi et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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How to Use the Dual Capacity-Building Framework to Strengthen Family Empowerment

Waterford

Since its initial publication in 2013, this framework has become a renowned model for developing better school communities through family and teacher empowerment. The idea is to build the partnering capacity of both families and educators while using their unique strengths to create a stronger school community.

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GlobalEdCon 2013 - Day Three Schedule

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference. A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to [link].

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The power of ed-tech in the developing world

Neo LMS

How ed-tech is shaping the developing world: a few case studies. When it comes to innovation and developing economies there are a lot of reports and studies that conclude with a large amounts of “shoulds” and “coulds”. This is an amazing piece of equipment for schools without Internet, and with intermittent power.

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Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

eSpark

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. In 2012-2013, UCS adopted personalized blended learning in its 80 full-day kindergarten classrooms.