Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. Investors and Entrepreneurs—From the 'Innovate' Newsletter This year was a busy one for the edtech industry from the standpoint of our AT&T State of Edtech report, which delved into funding deals and product development.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2018

With many schools now practicing blended learning, it can be helpful for educators interested in blended-learning programs to know which edtech tools are being used. For over five years, we at the Christensen Institute have been collecting data on blended-learning schools from around the world.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Digital-based learning benefits students. Blended learning and flipped classrooms. When teachers leverage technology, learning outcomes improve. From virtual labs and games to digital textbooks and online curriculum, digital classrooms rely on video. Increases student engagement in learning (75%).

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. 2016 Brightspace Awards for Excellence Winners.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

train future educators to teach online, experts say. A 2016 survey of such programs found that only about 4 percent of respondents offered field experiences such as student teaching in K-12 online settings. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Related: Rhode Island teachers trying out blended learning — but without high stakes pressure. Another Fuse fellow, Lisa Leaheey, an English teacher at North Providence High School, was part of the third cohort of the fellowship, which ran from 2016-18. “Before I met people from Highlander, I was an island, I was in a silo.”.

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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. Just putting a kid in front of a computer is not the best way to learn. million to 3.3

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Online learning is on the rise. Preconference workshop.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

According to a recent research report , 43 percent of children age 0-17 had millennial parents in 2014, and this figure is expected to exceed 50 percent in 2016. Beyond being supportive of online learning options, 8-in-10 millennial parents agree that online schools have the potential to personalize education.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system. Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

The ambitions for New York City’s Innovation Zone (or iZone) were sweeping: By 2014, city leaders hoped it would be the catalyst for technologically enhanced personalized learning models throughout the district, encompassing 400 schools. In 2013 the Gotham Gazette reported that the iZone had a budget of $47 million. Hodas left in 2014.)

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Online and blended learning continue to trend upward in higher education institutions across the U.S. The result of this work will be a highly readable document where educators can find information on the range of subject matters, learning outcomes, and learner types included in studies of the feature. According to a.

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, May 22, 2018 — To keep students actively learning over the summer and to help prevent summer learning loss, the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE), with the help of Fuel Education® (FuelEd®), is launching its sixth annual Alabama Summer Learning Challenge. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Yet Colorado appears to be the only state whose law, adopted in 2016, requires that districts train all teachers and school administrators in the basics of privacy and information security. (A This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

We’re hoping you don’t see the report as something you read once and file away, but that you start using it to really start stimulating conversation.”. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition). Teachers have long known learning is a social process — when students create meaning together, often the results are much more effective.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Tara Gilboa, Online Learning Experience Designer at Colorado School of Mines The LMS Checklist #1: Is the platform straightforward and user-friendly? We will be looking again when our contract runs out next year,” reports Superintendent Kirsch. “I In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning. Ramping Up Online Programs.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. Initially, K-8 teachers were asked if they wanted to opt in to blended learning environments, which mix online and face-to-face instruction. Their job is challenging enough without having to learn a whole new approach, Eastwood and Creeden recall hearing.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

has partnered with personalized learning provider Fuel Education (formerly Aventa Learning) to launch a new full-time online learning program for K-12. Material from a press release was used in this report. The Vidalia City Board of Education (Ga.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. According to a 2016 survey by the CoderDojo Foundation, nearly one third of all Dojo attendees are girls, and about the same proportion of mentors are female. Read more about Blended Learning.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched. Most, but not all, reported an absence of the sort of therapeutic benefit implied by the program’s name. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

They noted the menu of research reports, graphics and videos, and the “About” page describing the site as a project of a “nonprofit research organization” called the Employment Policies Institute. By and large, according to a report the group published last month, the answer in each case is no. Will they seek corroboration?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. regulation,” reports The Washington Post. The Chinese online learning company has raised $40.14

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The growth of “Course Choice” initiatives in various states was chronicled in depth by The Hechinger Report last year, in this story from our archives. — They want them at school learning. In the fall of 2016, students will be able to take up to six online classes (usually considered a full load of coursework) while remaining enrolled.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

.” Elsewhere in Trumplandia: “ Columbia University has declined to comment on recent reports that Monica Crowley , an appointee of President-elect Donald J. dissertation at the university,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. More on the report via Edsurge. ” Price tag for the report: $3599.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” From the organization’s press release : the NAACP “ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance and practice.” ” The publisher in question: Pearson.

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