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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways. However, even as technology has evolved to more effectively support learning, our education system faces another great divide: the Digital Learning Gap.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Google Classroom-2014. Many of those technologies support collaboration. These days, millions of students in the U.S. Class Dojo-2011.

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Eyeing More Deals, 2U Raises $331 Million From Latest Public Offering

Edsurge

The effort is resource-intensive as 2U provides a wide range of services, from working with faculty to develop the content, to providing marketing and technology support. That’s due largely to the upfront costs associated with starting a new digital graduate program, say Paucek. In fact, four months after that deal, 2U raised $189.5

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Fun with GIS 198: Two ConnectED Years

esri

Dateline Washington DC, The White House, May 27, 2014: President Obama welcomes Esri to the ConnectED Initiative , a partnership with private industry to help all US K12 students engage in digital learning. At the 2014 launch, focus was on the potential “ billion dollar commitment.”

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Taking a NAP

Learning with 'e's

Since 2014 I have served as chair of the steering committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals, an elected body that works autonomously alongside the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN). It’s now time to step down, as my 3 year term has been completed.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

At DCPS, he has been able to take the helm and drive forward an ambitious plan, whose aim is to “empower a community of learners by leveraging technology to develop critical thinkers who curate, collaborate, create, and communicate, in order to broaden, accelerate, and share their understanding of a digital and globally competitive world.?”.

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Why Solving the Teacher Shortage Is Critical for Edtech

Edsurge

Teachers cite a lack of administrative support, professional learning opportunities, time for planning and collaboration, and input into decision making as key reasons for their dissatisfaction. At the same time, enrollment in teacher education programs dropped from 691,000 to 451,000 between 2009 and 2014, LPI says.

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