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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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

Photo by Hence The Book on unsplash Today I was notified that this blog has been listed in the top ten of the UK's most influential education blogs by Vuelio for 2019. There are thousands of blogs dedicated to education in the UK, and many of them have great content that can inspire, inform or challenge. Learning Spy - David Didau 4.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. But at a university? “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. It even inspired President Obama to pitch a similar federal program. There’s no free-and-reduced lunch at college. Free For Whom?

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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

JANUARY 12, 2017

This month’s election surfaced the angry divide between urban and rural America, and education is one of these tension points. Ashmore is only one example of a rural town where the summer learning loss issue is very real.The Brookings Institute recently stated, “Rural schools are America’s forgotten educational institutions.”

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Today we are excited to announce the release of our first annual 2015 State of the States report on Internet connectivity in America’s K-12 public schools. Since then, thanks to the modernization of the E-rate program that made an additional $2.5 Provide every classroom with robust Wi-Fi.

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Broadband Report E-rate Digital Learning 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

November's election surfaced the angry divide between urban and rural America, and education is one of these tension points. Ashmore is only one example of a rural town where the summer learning loss issue is very real.The Brookings Institute recently stated, “Rural schools are America’s forgotten educational institutions.”

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E-rate Education Outcomes Accessibility 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

November's election surfaced the angry divide between urban and rural America, and education is one of these tension points. Ashmore is only one example of a rural town where the summer learning loss issue is very real.The Brookings Institute recently stated, “Rural schools are America’s forgotten educational institutions.”

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E-rate Education Outcomes Accessibility 60

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For the past decade, schools have invested millions of dollars in technology. The next game changer, according to education experts, will be digital textbooks. But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK.

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eBook Khan Academy Tablets Chromebook 185

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

“We live in a very rural state and our fiber connectivity is not comparable to what you would have in some large populous states,” said Tom Hering, Director of Information Technology at Great Falls Public Schools in Montana. “We They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 They turned to E-rate, the $3.9

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Broadband E-rate Tools Data 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Looking back now, at age 40, as assistant professor of higher education administration and policy in the University of California system, Del Real Viramontes can see what his story shares in common with the experiences of so many students who start out at community colleges hoping to eventually earn a bachelor’s degree. This week, the U.S.

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Policies Course E-rate Examples 171

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. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. billion drop in worldwide revenue from 2015 to 2021.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? Well, it’s 2019, and most of the schools and universities have already accepted digital textbooks as the future of education. Whitepaper: The State of Digital Content in Global K-12 Education. Are eTextbooks The Next Big Thing in K-12 Education?

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eBook E-rate Libraries Software 64

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Just when many school districts were starting to feel good about their wireless coverage and internet bandwidth, they face yet another question about technology infrastructure: how good are their defenses against hacking, or what’s more formally known as “cybercrime”? Hackers simply lock users out of their own data until a ransom is paid.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 billion by 2018. Now, Guokr lists over 45 platforms.

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Company Coursera EdTech E-rate 79

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I Weekly Update.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 52

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Special ed teacher Melissa Mann shares six of her favorite edtech tools for the special education classroom. This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. Technology is wonderful.

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Google Twitter Data Tools 290

edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2021

If your understanding of the Compton area in Los Angeles is based on hip hop songs and a 2015 movie about young people growing up there, you’re likely to be surprised by the tech-focused students and schools in the neighborhood now. Dr. Brawley received his doctorate in educational leadership at the University of Southern California.

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E-rate Professional Learning Elementary Robotics 57

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

“It was a last resort, there were not many options, and he seemed to love technology,” said Beal’s mother, Jill Huennekens. Towards the end of 2015, he dropped out. A study published in 2015 by Stanford University showed a consistent rate of low achievement from online students across 17 states. Analyzing data from 1.7

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E-rate Policies Report Analysis 79

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

In late 2015, Education SuperHighway received a $20 million grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, the charitable group of the chief executive of Facebook and his wife, a pediatrician. Do you think schools are using the new transparency provided by E-rate to negotiate better deals? Absolutely.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. During the 2015-16 school year, teachers began using STEMscopes Texas as their primary science curriculum. What changed?

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 64

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A decline in personal computer sales in the worldwide K-12 education market may be linked to faltering economies in other countries, particularly Latin America, a new report finds. The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The results also detail the impact of changes to the E-rate program, as well as the growing issue of digital equity for technology access outside of the classroom. Education is going digital. Yet school system technology leaders face many challenges as they plan their education networks for the future.

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E-rate Broadband Survey System 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. Their answer was CAST (which stands for Centers for Applied Science and Technology). Related: Revamped and rigorous, career and technical education is ready to be taken seriously.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The problems with privacy range from fundamental questions of definition and scope, to questions of equity and inclusion, to intensely technical questions about law and technology. Her research examines the intersection of archives, technology, and law. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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Libraries Conference Data E-rate 85

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. Upgrading 62 school districts will finish the job of connecting 99% of students.

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E-rate Broadband Digital Learning Meeting 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The problems with privacy range from fundamental questions of definition and scope, to questions of equity and inclusion, to intensely technical questions about law and technology. Her research examines the intersection of archives, technology, and law. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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Libraries Conference Data E-rate 71

Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 15, 2016

On November 16, Governor Brownback and Education Commissioner Watson announced the launch of the Kansas Connect and Learn Initiative in partnership with EducationSuperHighway. The goal of this initiative is for every child to have the same opportunities when it comes to learning through technology.

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E-rate Analysis Learning Digital Learning 40

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The new computers are one of the most noticeable changes among several technology updates taking place while school’s out for the summer. The influx of technology brings the district’s technology ratio to one device for every two students, which is lower than the previous ratio of roughly one device for every three students. —The

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Chromebook E-rate BYOD Online Assessments 40

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

Check out our guide, Bridging Education and Work: New Models for ‘Skilling Up.’. The use of technology brings a job seeker to life and provides a connection point between employers and job candidates. Want to learn more about connecting learning to career skills? Digital portfolios are a proven catalyst to employment for many students.

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E-rate Course Outcomes Survey 98

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

“Internet access is no longer an afterthought in education; instead high-speed broadband and wi-fi are now a vital component of K-12 school infrastructure, there is an increased emphasis on digital learning,” according to the report. K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity. State leadership for infrastructure. ”

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Millions of students in school districts across the country still need us to prepare them to compete in today’s technology-driven world.” Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Report 40

Education Superhighway

JULY 10, 2015

In preparation for the Forum, EducationSuperHighway worked with district technology directors to collect and analyze Internet access pricing data and bandwidth speeds to understand connectivity in the region. The districts were able to make mid-contract upgrades while taking into consideration E-rate stipulations to maintain eligibility.

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Broadband Data E-rate Digital Learning 40