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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify. But Kenneth R.

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Frontline Education Releases Year-to-Date Administration Software Innovation Summary

eSchool News

GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today released a comprehensive year-to-date innovation summary that underscores the company’s commitment to anticipating and meeting the evolving needs of school districts across the country. Malvern, Pa.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

Last year, Brandi Pitts’ kindergarten students were struggling with a software program meant to help them with math. Her school had received free software licenses through a state-funded project, but she’d initially missed the formal instruction on how to use the program because she was out sick. “A

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State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Even proponents of educational technology admit that a lot of software sold to schools isn’t very good. But they often highlight the promise of so-called “adaptive learning” software, in which complex algorithms react to how a student answers questions, and tailor instruction to each student.

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Transeo Names EdTech Industry Leader Cecilia Retelle Zywicki as CEO

eSchool News

Before that, Zywicki co-founded the software company Ranku in 2013, which built two-sided marketplaces for state systems to increase student enrollment. It also included recruitment and predictive analytics software before being acquired by John Wiley & Sons in 2016.

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Review: LittleBit’s Code Kit Makes Programming Fun

EdTech Magazine

LittleBits unique coding software is based on Google ’s Blockly, which makes programming more intuitive. The software is available for all major operating systems and installs quickly. I’ve been using littleBits kits since 2013, when the company first released the Base, Premium and Deluxe Kits.

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Q&A: Jason Osborne on How to Help K–12 Students Discover the World of Science

EdTech Magazine

He was honored at the White House as a Champion of Change in 2013. We’re working with a particular software that is taking advanced images and we’re able to upload those up into a VR system, and kids can go in and trace neurons and brain cell tissue or possibly look at stem cell data.

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