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Outschool Is In, Raising $45M to Beam Live, Small-Group Classes to Homes

Edsurge

Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, started out in 2015 with a focus on serving families that homeschool. million to also offer live, small-group online classes (though focused strictly on academic subjects). For outdoor activities for children, there’s Tinkergarten.

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As LinkedIn Learning Subsumes Lynda.com, Library Groups Raise Privacy Concerns

Edsurge

But this week, library groups urged their members to stop using the service if the company—now owned by LinkedIn, a subsidiary of Microsoft—makes planned changes to Lynda.com that will require library patrons to create a LinkedIn profile to access the service. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015 for $1.5

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10 Most Popular Tech Tips and Click-throughs in 2015

Ask a Tech Teacher

Because AATT is a resource blog, we share lots of tips our group comes across in their daily teaching as well as materials shared by others we think you’d like. Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2015: Top 10 Tech Tips. Each week in 2015, I shared one of those with you. My Program Froze.

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#WorldReadAloudDay February 2

Ask a Tech Teacher

Created by LitWorld , past years have found over 1 million people in 100 countries joining together to enjoy the power and wonder of reading aloud in groups or individually, at school or home, and discovering what it means to listen to a story told through the voice of another. Simon & Schuster, 2015. Charlesbridge, 2015.

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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Effective use of differentiated instruction “has been proven to successfully promote the equity dimension of instructional effectiveness by providing all students with the opportunity to improve their achievement levels” (Valiandes, 2015). Embracing Our Facilitation Role & Prioritizing Feedback with Blended Learning.

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Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards!

Digital Promise

Today, we are thrilled to announce 16 stellar winners in the 2015 DILAs. And with that, meet the 2015 winners! Global Nomads Group. To celebrate the winners, on November 20, 2015, Digital Promise and EdSurge will co-host the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards Gala at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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This Texas community college group is offering free tuition – and much more

The Hechinger Report

years in 2015 to 3.76 While the program has received million-dollar donations from local groups, the biggest splashes came seven months apart recently when MacKenzie Scott and her husband Dan Jewett donated $20 million to Palo Alto College and $15 million to San Antonio College. years in 2020.

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