Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Staker (2011) defined this approach as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace” (p. Blended Learning’s Consistent Presence. link] Breen, P.

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Blended Learning Learning Outcomes Course 115

Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Most students are comfortable with online environments, and including distance learning assignments with some digital elements can be a helpful way to connect with them.[7]. In a nutshell, what are the benefits of blended and hybrid learning? Better able to meet the needs of all students. Blended and Distance Learning.

Blended Learning 279

Blended Learning Classroom Learning E-rate 279

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

LinkedIn has temporarily delayed planned changes to Lynda.com, a popular education-video library the company bought in 2015 for $1.5 The pause is giving us time to continue our discussions with the library community and understand if we can build an online learning solution that meets the needs of public libraries and library patrons.”

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lynda.com Libraries Company Video 177

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

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Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Hapara

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Put everything related to your class in your digital hub, including: Instructions for digital learning activities. Virtual meeting links . Having all class communications in one place gives students a solid foundation for learning and a single location for student-teacher communication and relationship building. .

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Hapara Digital Learning Course Examples 246

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online learning has come a long way since its early champions saw it as a supplement to classroom learning. And while online learning has more than proven itself to be both an alternative to and complementary offering for traditional classroom instruction, some misconceptions still persist.

E-rate 111

E-rate Learning Trends Industry 111

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2020

Like other similar districts, we meet our students’ needs through enhancing instruction, building strong relationships between students and their teachers, and creating opportunities for students to take ownership of their learning. After the pilot, we saw how blended learning could help meet our students’ needs.

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Blended Learning Learning Differentiated Instruction Education Elements 77

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 165

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

The English language arts department debuted its curriculum in the 2015-16 school year, and the math, science and social studies departments will introduce curricula during each consecutive school year. Teachers can modify and redistribute the materials without violating copyright laws.

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Educators are striving to transform learning environments to meet changing needs. In 2015, more than 90% of district administrators said instructional tech is important to achieving their core mission of educating students. 84% said that school tech adds value to their child’s learning. Online Video.

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Video Classroom Flipped Classroom Blended Learning 229

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

A 2015 report found that the lack of AP classes may increase the financial burden on college-bound rural students: Students who don’t take AP classes don’t earn college credit that could enable them to graduate more quickly, and such students are “more likely to pay for additional remedial coursework when beginning college.”.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Yet a 2015 report by Universities Canada found that less than half of Canadian universities have a strategy to adopt digital technologies.

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Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

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. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full.

OER 60

OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We could neither travel nor meet in person. Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. Our political reporting classes had grown out of student reporting trips we took to Cuba, where we covered emerging entrepreneurism in 2015 , the arts in 2016 , and the local environment in 2017.

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Report Course Online Learning Meeting 143

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion. “Information today is pushed so quickly at people that the landscape has fundamentally changed.”

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Coursera lynda.com Training MOOC 156

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. These students are Texas-based and don’t have any requirements to meet their classmates or teachers in person. Kaye Rogers, iUniversity Prep.

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Training Meeting Study Examples 58

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

To start, he and his staff examined the research behind traditional high school models, online learning, self-directed programs in which learners work independently, and more customized outreach programs—traveling to see how these programs worked in other schools. Easily differentiate learning for groups of learners.

Hapara 108

Hapara Course Accessibility Online Learning 108

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a 2015 study by a Stanford University research team compared academic outcomes of students at 158 online charter schools in 17 states with those of students in brick-and-mortar schools in their states who were matched on numerous characteristics, including prior test scores. A lot of these parents, I think, are victims.

E-rate 122

E-rate Pearson Company Report 122

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Equal access to online learning opportunities has continued to be a challenge, with the focus expanding beyond access to devices and hotspots and now including high-speed access for all students. He also found that blended learning can be a great way to maximize the learning potential of parents as well as educators and students.

Technology 90

Technology Blended Learning BYOD Assessment 90

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

The linear, factory system of education is counter to the messy, irregular, and creative learning process that our students have grown accustomed to outside of school. As such, the following are three key points to consider as we are challenged to meet the needs of Generation Z—just in time for the 2016-2017 school year.

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Learning System Industry Technology 110

District Administration

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Keys to using virtual and online resources to provide new opportunities for learning District Administration Custom Publishing Group District Administration, December 2015 Virtual learning can offer a variety of benefits to districts as well as students.

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Outcomes Common Core Learning Online Learning 40

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

As part of the arrangement, 2U also paid $13 million to Flatiron School, a coding bootcamp owned by WeWork, to use the school’s online learning platform. Trilogy Education started in 2015 and has since grown to serving nearly 50 schools, offering about 120 programs that have served about 20,000 students.

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Company Education MOOC Conference 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

Digital Divide 116

Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 116

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The venture capitalist arranged a meeting with Byju’s senior team at Ravishankar’s office in Mumbai, Ravishankar says. It would report revenue of about $2 million for the 2014-2015 fiscal year, according to TechCircle. Impressed, Ravishankar and Sequoia India led a $25 million Series B investment round in the company in 2015.

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Company Video Broadband Report 95

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Kim had previously been an Executive Vice President at Edison Learning, a for-profit education management organization. Prior to that, he founded Provost Systems an online learning platform acquired by Edison Learning in 2008. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. Cohort Three will launch last.

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. percent in 2015-16. Opportunities for online learning. Some students may require a more flexible learning schedule than the typical school day allows.

Learning 61

Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 61

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

But he struggled to remain engaged in the online program, and his scores sunk even lower. Towards the end of 2015, he dropped out. He believes that the current way that some online programs design and deliver curricula do not meet the needs of low-income students who struggle academically.

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E-rate Policies Report Analysis 80

IT Bill

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Offering online programming is a great way to provide access to higher education but closing the gap between online and classroom student outcomes is an ongoing challenge. Although these can be helpful indicators in predicting online student achievement, another approach that offers promise focuses on the at-risk course.

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Outcomes Classroom Course Study 28

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a statewide public school district in the state of Florida and international provider of education products and services, has selected D2L , a global learning technology provider, to deploy its Brightspace platform as the district’s new learning management system (LMS). ”

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LMS Learning Analytics Game-Based Learning Smartphone 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Related: Teacher shortages force districts to use online education programs. Despite what skeptics say about online courses, Altus administrators insist that their curriculum passes muster. Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Since 2015, 10% or fewer school districts have reported that all of their students have internet access via non-shared devices at home. Often, commons-type spaces combine an array of technology and furnishings to facilitate several types of learning. These include remote or online learning and research.

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Laptops Libraries STEM Chromebook 179

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Open Pedagogy: The Important of Getting in the Air (2015) uses the driving an airplane down the road metaphor (which I believe I first heard Richard Culatta use?) She writes: Wiley adopts a new term as a response to the way OEP had broadened the field towards constructivist online learning.

OER 113

OER Technology Exercises Online Learning 113

edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

According to the district’s superintendent, Dr. Mark Benigni, their cloud-based solutions, including ClassLink, supports students spending additional time online learning. The Meriden Public Schools has received awards from CoSN, the Learning Counsel, NSBA, Digital Promise, District Administration, and Edutopia.

Learning 54

Learning Blended Learning BYOD Professional Learning 54

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

Tools 91

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 91

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 100

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 Oliver Robinson.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141