Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

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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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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. So we can assume that video-based learning will only grow in 2017. Adaptive learning. And discussions will eventually lead to more progress.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. Knewton’s CEO Kibby formerly served as president of McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education Group.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

Knewton: All Talk, Little Evidence While AltSchool spent millions of dollars, few experts I talked to described the microschool model as having negative impacts on student learning. At a presentation, Ferreira “claimed it would be transferable for groups like incarcerated youth and ‘change education forever,’” she recalls.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Ruiz says the platform’s differentiation, adaptive learning, and teacher dashboard data combine to offer her students one key benefit: equity.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Ruiz says the platform’s differentiation, adaptive learning, and teacher dashboard data combine to offer her students one key benefit: equity.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 billion in 2016, according to Goldman Sachs. Authess $2.2

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

In contrast, 21st-century learning is characterized by: Personalized and Adaptive Learning: Tailoring education to individual student needs, abilities, and interests. Project-Based and Experiential Learning: Engaging students in real-world projects and hands-on experiences that make learning relevant and exciting.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

The rise of AI-powered intelligent tutoring systems According to Technavio, the global artificial intelligence market in the education sector 2016-2020 will grow at a CAGR of more than 39% by 2020. One of the primary factors fuelling this market growth is the adoption of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) in the learning process.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

Colorado Technical University (CTU) began the adoption of adaptive-learning courses in late 2012. We have just over 100 courses using our proprietary adaptive technology (called intellipath ), 400 faculty trained to use the technology, and approximately 55,000 students who have used it in CTU courses. How did we do it?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

Did you miss our top S’Cool Tools of 2016 ? DoodleMaths : Neil Jarrett, a year 6 teacher and math coordinator in Bangkok, Thailand, inspired us to include this tool this week after listing it as one of his favorite adaptive learning apps. Check it out—then check back here. DoodleMaths Freemium!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

You are given the choice between sending your child to the crumbling building of an underfunded public high school where she has limited options of AP, math and foreign language classes to choose from, all delivered to a group of 20-30 students at a time, strictly according to schedule, five days per week.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

D2L, provider of a learning management system, was started by a student at the University of Waterloo. Adaptive learning tool Smart Sparrow traces its origins to a graduate student in Australia. In Steve Jobs’ defense, his whole quote is this: “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. Previously a consultant and policy adviser to Michael Gove, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of Education, Martin first explored growth opportunities for international education companies in Africa in 2015, after leaving his gig at Boston Consulting Group.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

Although 42 design firms have been acquired over the past decade, nearly half of the acquisitions happened in the past year (2015), according to the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers influential Design In Tech Report 2016. We look forward to advancing this discussion as a group and seeing what we can "design" together.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. Second, more innovation Machine learning, adaptive learning and virtual reality Will be at the center of education technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Surely a lot has changed!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Here are my five resolutions for the 2016 - 2017 school year: 1. For teachers without many seasons under their belts, check out this list of 50 classroom procedures ; it’s a good double check to make sure you’ve thought of everything—from group work to digital citizenship to classroom discussion. Connect (or disconnect.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. Education rewards patience, and one investor group has re-upped its coffers. Venture capital for U.S. Also missing were blockbuster exits, such as LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It reduced its developmental course offerings to only one required reading course that is paired with the college-level course, and two self-paced math pathways that use adaptive-learning technology along with guided instruction from a faculty member in the classroom. There were physical changes, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

At higher education’s biggest IT conference, Sugata Mitra described how small children can inspire the future of learning. Children in groups, he observed, can develop an understanding greater than that of any individual. The group will publish the list in January as part of a report, though the association. The answer: nobody.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The program will begin with selected ventures in May 2016. TAL Invests in Knewton: TAL Education Group (NYSE: XRS ), a K-12 after-school tutoring services provider in China, announced a strategic investment in New York-based Knewton , a global provider of adaptive learning products. based school provider.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Allison Salisbury: Here at EdSurge we’ve watched and admired as groups from Student Voice to Young Invincibles grow in power and visibility, emboldening students to speak up and speak out. In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. How can edtech help students be more human?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Thus, learning objectives were reframed as quests—a staple of many role playing games—challenging kids to design a safe transport into the earth’s crust during science class or simulate court cases during civics. But make no mistake: game design is very important for learning. When we talk about skill development, it takes time.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

"Research has shown (and continues to show) that a growth mindset can have a profound effect on students' motivation, enabling them to focus on learning, persist more, learn more, and do better in school" (Dweck 2016). You can easily use or adapt them to meet the needs of your unique group of students.

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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 live interactions also allow for feedback and learning through the back channel process.

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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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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

. “ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via the San Jose Mercury News : “A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for a state audit of a profitable but low-performing network of online charter schools following this newspaper’s investigation of K12 Inc., ” CSS pic.twitter.com/JYyabJDAS3 — Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) June 6, 2016. public schools.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. Don’t do this. million total.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , said in a 2012 speech that his “adaptive learning” platform, used by 10 million students globally, collects 5 to 10 million data points per student per day — down to how many seconds it takes you to answer that algebra problem. Copyright 2016 NPR. “And it’s not even close.”

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

A group of recent studies on technology in education, across a wide range of real-world settings, have come up far short of a ringing endorsement. The studies include research on K-12 schools and higher ed, both blended learning and online, and show results ranging from mixed to negative. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Asian-American Groups Accuse Brown , Dartmouth , and Yale of Bias in Admissions.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” ” Via AIR : “Getting Back on Track: What Math Content Is Taught and Learned in Online and Face-to-Face Algebra Credit Recovery Courses ?” Match Group is selling its subsidiary Princeton Review to ST Unitas.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

“The Federal Trade Commission on Friday filed a complaint against the academic journal publisher OMICS Group and two of its subsidiaries, saying the publisher deceives scholars and misrepresents the editorial rigor of its journals,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “In May 2008, as the Great Recession was just beginning, U.S.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48 ” Campus Technology claims that “ Phishing Attacks Down 10 Percent in 2016,” but John Podesta was phished which seems to be a far more important factoid, imho. The company has raised $8.5

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