Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We focus a lot on the K-12 system of the United States in our blog , and I thought it would be fun and interesting to explore how countries in the developing world are facing their specific educational challenges with blended learning models. The pilot generated positive results with the average successful pass rate being 86% across topics.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

2] For educators, it’s important to watch for signs that a student is experiencing any of these in addition to school stressors to provide them with the right support. But as an educator, you can provide support through stress management activities, strategies, and referrals as needed. Voices in Urban Education, 2016, 43, pp.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Our mission is to bring relevant education which advances people in careers and socio-economic activities, and MOOCs aren't the way.” In an e-mail interview with EdSurge this week, Shen said that her statement was not meant as an announcement of a new strategy for Udacity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Online education giant VIPKid, a Beijing-based tutoring platform that has raised $1.1 billion in capital since its founding and was at one point valued at over $3 billion, will end its flagship education program in China by early next month. The e-card templates VIPKid created for teachers to tell their Chinese students goodbye.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, 225 students along with the faculty and staff of the Village Green Virtual Charter High School (VGV) have been pioneering the school of the future—advancing individualized education and family choice by maximizing technology, creating community, reshaping teaching, and redefining school.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Since 2013, over 1,000 school districts, across all 50 states have taken advantage of our free support. NAVIGATE E-RATE. Advice on E-rate program timeline and milestones. JOSH CHISOM, E-RATE SPECIALIST. Translate your technology plans into reality using e-rate funding. OPTIMIZE NETWORK.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In December, Colorado’s education leaders found that through their Kids Link Colorado Initiative , statewide school bandwidth doubled by 200%. Thanks to E-rate, School Internet Costs Dropped to an All-Time Low. School Internet costs have been steadily dropping since E-rate’s critical modernization in 2014.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

million more compared to 2013. E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks. With more E-Rate data comes a more detailed picture for the state of internet connectivity. EducationSuperHighway.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. An Amazon spokesperson says over email that Echo360 has used AWS services since 2013.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Since 2013, the number of states with 99% of students connected has swelled from four to 20. More highlights from this year’s report: The number of students with access to the broadband they need for digital learning grew from 4 million in 2013 to 44.7 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. million today.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning.

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Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz. But they are all misleading.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. billion by 2018. And the landscape is increasingly crowded.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Since EducationSuperHighway began, creating digital learning opportunities for all children has motivated us to ensure that digital equity is a nationwide reality in our education system. This is up from just 4 million students in 2013. billion-per-year E-rate program resources to fulfill this promise.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 14, 2018

E-rate data shows that approximately 59,107 students in Alaska do not have the bandwidth they need to access digital learning opportunities in the classroom. Fortunately, there are a myriad of ways that the funding provided by the E-rate program can benefit both rural communities and the providers that serve them.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The education research and cognitive science fields are no different. For each technique, the researchers provided a rating of its overall effectiveness as “high” “moderate” or “low.” recommend educators provide ways for students to re-test frequently on their own and in class. Dunlosky et al.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

Nearly nine out of 10 school districts meet the federal government’s minimum standard for internet connectivity – a significant increase from 2013, when only 30 percent met that level, according to a report released Tuesday by a California-based nonprofit organization. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Since 2013, 49 governors have led the effort that has connected an estimated 40.7 ” More highlights from the 2018 State of the States Report: Only 1,356 schools still lack a fiber-optic connection or other scalable broadband infrastructure, down from 22,958 schools in 2013. billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Launched in 2013, XuetangX, the Chinese platform in third place, claims 18 million.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Nearly 10 percent of educational institutions in the US have already received “ransomware” to address this according to CETPA president Aaron Barnett in his keynote address at the organization’s most recent annual conference in Sacramento, Calif. Hackers simply lock users out of their own data until a ransom is paid.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2017

Each of these proposals, though slightly different, is focused on addressing an issue that has received great attention in the press and among policymakers: the continually rising cost of a college education and the student debt required to finance it. For students from families with incomes above $55,000, 71 percent enrolled in college.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The key to this, according to the newly-published e-book, “ Choice, Ownership, and Voice through Authentic Learning ,” is to create learning environments and activities that support COVA, which stands for choice, ownership, voice and authentic learning.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In 2013, our SchoolSpeedTest analysis of K-12 broadband purchasing revealed only 30 percent of school districts nationwide met the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum Internet access goal of 100 kbps per student, leaving 40 million students without the broadband needed for digital learning.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. Spearheaded by The Alliance for Excellent Education , the event provided teachers with resources like lesson plans and toolkits. It also brought influential education leaders together at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.,

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Each year, K-12 schools and districts that have leveraged technology to dramatically improve the educational experiences and achievements of their students are honored through SETDA’s Student Voices program. She is passionate about leveraging technology’s promise to improve education. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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OER Tools E-rate Blackboard 40

ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A s demonstrated by scores on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) , only 37 percent of fourth graders in our country are proficient readers. A more recent study conducted on Florida’s early literacy policy analyzed graduation rates of all retained students compared to those promoted.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

"If you can imagine it, you can invent it" - unknown I recall Nicky Hockley''s keynote for the Reform Symposium 2013. The implications of this for education, business, commerce and a whole host of other sectors of society is. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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Learning E-rate Digital Divide Microsoft 59

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of teachers surveyed by Pew reported using mobile phones in the classroom or to complete assignments, while almost half (45%) reported using e-readers and tablet computers.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Wired Campus

MAY 13, 2015

Eichhorn, who will teach the segment on disease dynamics, says she plans to use clips from The Strain to illustrate the rate at which epidemics spread in real life. In 2013 the two collaborated on a course based on AMC’s The Walking Dead, which garnered more than 65,000 participants. Perhaps surprisingly, Ms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 27th, 2014 The secret of education is respecting the pupil. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Today’s educators work hard to balance both the increasing demands of blended and digital learning and the best curriculum and instruction for their students. During instructional rounds, small groups of three to five people make relatively brief observations of educators in action. In the Classroom: Observe. Works Cited.

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Learning E-rate Digital Learning Professional Learning 45

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. It’s e-counseling 2.0. Between 1970 and 2013, the percentage of Americans in the lowest income quartile who had a college degree by age 24 rose from 6 to 9 percent. “So,

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

Videos are probably a more effective way to introduce you to a game than some kind of app overview page with nebulous, consumer-driven ratings. e.width){e.setAttribute("data-vertical", "true")}})(this);'' onerror=''(function(e){e.setAttribute("src", "https://media-cdn.list.ly/missing-image.png");})(this);'' Portal 2 Teaser Trailer.

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