Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 2011) contend, engage in “an orchestration…a curricular dance (more like a ballet) [adaptive teachers] responsive[ly]teach…and with the slightest change in the instructional ecology of the classroom, change their position in order to support student learning” (p. Madda et al.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

The accelerator is a partnership formed in 2015 between Pasadena, CA-based nonprofit Michelson 20MM Foundation and San Francisco incubator Runway. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER).

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techieMusings

JULY 24, 2015

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Strategy Adaptive Learning Outcomes Video 50

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. ACT , the nonprofit best known for its college-readiness test, is undergoing a major transformation.

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Assessment Elsevier Knewton Company 61

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

America’s system of education was built for an economy and a society that no longer exists” (National Education Association, n.d.). There are adaptive learning systems that use assessment results from one activity and guide students to that next learning activity. The demand is real. We live in the information age.

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Personalized Learning Blended Learning Learning Exercises 42

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. What particularly excites him today are educational services around careers, credentials and content curation that operate outside of the traditional system. That was not the case in 2015, when. Venture capital for U.S.

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EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

He described the collective ability to learn without direct guidance as an example of “emergent behavior in a self-organizing system.”. He concluded his keynote with a calling for learning to be designed around three principles: a curriculum of questions, not facts; a pedagogy that encourages collaboration and use of the internet; and.

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Libraries LMS Data Blackboard 60

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Integrated Learning Systems” was used back in 1999, and then we moved on to other terms for more or less the same concept.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Integrated Learning Systems” was used back in 1999, and then we moved on to other terms for more or less the same concept.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

America’s system of education was built for an economy and a society that no longer exists” (National Education Association, n.d.). There are adaptive learning systems that use assessment results from one activity and guide students to that next learning activity. The demand is real. We live in the information age.

Personalized Learning 28

Personalized Learning Blended Learning Learning Exercises 28

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

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.

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Assessment Course Khan Academy Blended Learning 59

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

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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Online Learning Learning Blended Learning Assessment 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. The back channel in the classroom is powerful and your LMS (Learning Management System) may serve this quite well.

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Assessment Tools LMS Learning 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Next Generation Courseware Challenge project in fall 2014, and began implementing Smart Sparrow ’s BioBeyond technology in spring 2015. We hoped this tool would help us meet one of our learning goals to enhance the learning environment by increased use of innovative teaching techniques, interactive technologies, and assessment data.

Learning 60

Learning OER Software Course 60

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

At this year’s SXSWedu, the annual education technology conference in Austin, Texas, he heard from provosts at large public university systems in states including Florida and Maryland commit to phasing out textbooks in favor of creating in-house online courseware design teams. Dror-Naim is optimistic that university leaders will commit.

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Adaptive Learning Tools Company Learning 79

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Based on the success of the Z-degree program, TCC agreed to pilot Lumen Learning’s Waymaker courseware when the developer was chosen as one of seven finalists for the Gates Foundation Next Generation Courseware Challenge.

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Adaptive Learning OER Learning Course 67

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 7, 2015

See also, trends in education for 2015.). That is, the ability to think critically should theoretically change both the systems and its parts. It’s not clear the way that iPads will change a classroom, or adaptive learning apps should change a curriculum–or the idea of a curriculum, for example.

Learning 40

Learning Industry Company Examples 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 3, 2021

In 2015 (and updated most recently in 2018), I wrote a post about helping students learn more from ‘others’ than they do from you (the teacher). I’d want automations and human networks and live streaming and adaptive learning algorithms. To facilitate learning in whatever form. And become upset.

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Social Media Adaptive Learning System Policies 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

These conveniences, which we often take for granted, require data to pass through different systems and servers. Data about a student’s background, their benchmark test results, or their school schedule sometimes remain fragmented across different systems. Others will build their own APIs to communicate with school systems.

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Report Khan Academy Data LMS 63

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

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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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Perhaps, as developmental psychologist Edith Ackermann argued this year, the “ maker ” movement will serve as “ Papert’s Perestroika ,” thawing the school system’s reluctance to embrace constructionist practices. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Basecamp is essentially a learning management system (with the adjective “personalized” appended to it). Despite the press coverage – the funding announcement was made on Oprah – things didn’t really go as planned , as journalist Dale Russakoff has recounted in her 2015 book The Prize.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “The University of California system has agreed to pay $1.15 Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” It planned to do so back in 2015.) ” These VR people seem nice and ethical. .” " No s**t.

Education 40

Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. weeks in 2015.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “After the State College of Florida replaced a tenure-like system with three-year contracts for all new faculty members, some complained.

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A bill backed by President Trump and announced Wednesday aims to reduce overall legal immigration by half while putting in place a new points-based system for applicants for employment-based green cards that would privilege graduates of American universities.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

This coding bootcamp was acquired by the University of Phoenix’s parent company, Apollo Education Group , in 2015. “Students who can’t afford uniforms in New Orleans all-charter-system are routinely barred from attending school. .” The Iron Yard announced this week that it will also be closing.

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is engaging in a strategic review that will include weighing mergers and closings among its 14 universities,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” PrecisionHawk is a drone surveillance company, which I’m sure has nothing in common with the learning management system.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40