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Developing a Research Base to Evaluate Digital Courseware

Edsurge

Online and blended learning continue to trend upward in higher education institutions across the U.S. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by. According to a. SRI Education revealed that different impacts may be found even when the same product is evaluated in different studies.

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Brightspace Excellence Awards highlight innovation in online learning

eSchool News

The University of Akron launched the GenEd Core Pilot Program in Fall 2015 to help increase access to higher education. The program used Brightspace to deliver blended learning courses designed with experiential learning elements that allowed them to be offered with significant cost savings.

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What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

As I see it, such platforms fall on a spectrum, and for our purposes, can analogously be compared to in-the-flesh educators: Platform as Specialist : This is an adaptive learning platform (like Lexia Core5 or DreamBox ) that teaches discrete skills, usually in response to pre-assessed learning gaps. Is the student bored?

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Education Behemoth Pearson to Cut 4,000 Employees, 10 Percent of Workforce

Marketplace K-12

” New school accountability measures in England and Wales caused a steep drop in vocational course-taking, from 700,000 enrollments in 2012 to 320,000 in 2015. In 2016, the company said it expects to report operating profits — before the costs of the restructuring effort — of between £580 million and £620 million.

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

The NMC Horizon 2015 K-12 report offers a snapshot of where ed tech stands now and where it is likely to go in the next five years, according to 56 education and technology experts from 22 countries. Access to mobile technology especially has helped students feel comfortable in the role of digital creator.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Summit’s Basecamp is far from the only personalized-learning effort out there, but it’s among the most ambitious.

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Key Digital Skills for 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

They can be used in flipped classrooms or in blended learning environments. These principles, according to Kucher (2021), are interactivity, immersiveness, adaptive problem solving, feedback, and freedom of exploration. With innovations come the important skill of adaptability.