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Not Sure What Courseware to Try? This Tool Wants to Make Your Decision Easier

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But without proof, Monroe, vice president of academic innovation and support at Ivy Tech Community College, and her colleagues are searching in the dark to find the right tools that faculty can use to improve learning outcomes for the more than 200,000 students in the Indiana community college system. Does it mean adaptive software?

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Developing a Research Base to Evaluate Digital Courseware

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Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by.

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

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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. 2016 Institutional Awards. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers. Our aim is to amplify the voices of students from all backgrounds to shape how higher education is evolving.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Investor Weld North, Learn Launch Make Big Moves

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Frontline Acquires Teachscape: K-12 software provider Frontline Technologies has acquired Teachscape , a professional growth solutions provider for K-12 and higher education. The program will begin with selected ventures in May 2016. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In a recent statement, Malvern, Pa.-based

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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.

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