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ACT Bets Big on Analytics, Adaptive Learning With $7.5M Investment in Smart Sparrow

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In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. million investment in Smart Sparrow , a company that offers a platform used by many higher-ed faculty members and instructors to develop online, adaptive courses and simulations.

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CTU And UMUC Collaborate on Adaptive Learning and Everyone Benefits

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Sharing data, best practices, learning maps, and survey results has moved the needle on adaptive learning forward at our schools. Below, we focus on the joint work of CTU and UMUC, which, along the way, have discovered a common passion for using digital tools to promote student learning. Uniting Around Adaptive Learning.

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How Education Service Agencies Transform Data Fragmentation to Data Integration

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This agility allows teachers to adapt learning plans to individual student needs. Reducing time spent on generating reports meant educators could focus more on teaching and adapting learning plans to each student's unique situation. This has a [favorable] impact on actual students during their existing academic year.

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7 e-learning trends for educational institutions in 2017

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2016 so far has been a very challenging year, yet also very rewarding. One very good thing of 2016 was that the ed tech world never stopped evolving, not even for a second. 7 e-learning trends for educational institutions in 2017. So we can assume that video-based learning will only grow in 2017. Adaptive learning.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

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Student-Centered Learning The 21st century classroom is a student-centered learning hub. In these classrooms, ” students regularly communicate, collaborate, self-reflect, problem solve,and peer-evaluate about their learning” (Hansen & Imse, 2016, p. link] Hansen, D., & Imse, L. link] Martinez, M.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. She jumped at the opportunity to pilot the program in her school. Source: Levered.

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Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities

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I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. as you continue to amplify formative learning with digital technology. 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. Collaboration.