Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 29, 2023

The Importance of the ePub File Format Great compatibility, accessibility, and a responsive interface make ePub the preferred format when publishing online learning material. Android Google Play Books is the best free option to open ePub files on an Android device.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. Understanding Chronic Absenteeism The U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3 Graduation rates tripped between 2008 and 2016, and the school boasts one of the highest four-year graduation rates among community colleges in the state. Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed? What’s Next for Pearson? Persuasive Design.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2019

From K-12 classrooms to professional sales training, many entrepreneurs would say that learning is better together, with peers and instructors. That also applies to “bootcamp” models of online learning, which made up half of the six edtech graduates. Edyst Online learning has a loneliness problem.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2016

School leaders are expected to help their teachers use current technology to enhance learning, but at the same time, they must keep on top of future technologies that might soon impact teaching and learning. zSpace, Inc.

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Learning in Hand

AUGUST 27, 2017

In 2016 Quizlet introduced Quizlet Live , a team-based way for students to study terms and definitions. After your diagram is created, you can copy its URL and share it anywhere: Google Classroom, through a QR code, URL shortener, website, hyperdoc, etc. If you want to learn more about Google Drawings, then you’re in luck!

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Avra Robinson is the Director of Online Learning and Instruction for Edtech Teacher, and an authorized Google Education Trainer. However, once she had her students type their work into Google Docs and screencast themselves reading aloud during revision, the final product was markedly improved.

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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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

By the time Raveendran formally incorporated Byju’s parent company, Think & Learn, in 2011, 110 million Indians used the internet, only about 9 percent of the country, according to a study from Google and KPMG. Investors and tech In August 2015, Byju’s launched its titular online learning app.

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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? Because free isn’t always better (“I'm not a fan of Google Classroom,” says Tami Flood), and contracts do run out, so consider other options when the current LMS doesn’t deliver. “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Tokenized Learning According to data tracked by Coinbase , ICOs have raised nearly $3.4

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. percent — the proportion of public school students who are English-language learners, according to a 2016 study. “I million English-language learners (ELLs). These students made up 9.6

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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. It was the same kind of thing just on a larger, more formal scale,” said Leaheey.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 8, 2020

How can I leverage tools, like online discussions and video conferencing software, to allow learners to engage with each other? How can I utilize the collaborative nature of the Google Suite or Microsoft OneNote to get groups of students working on shared tasks together?

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am taking, Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). SOLEs happen collaboratively, both offline and online, or exclusively online.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am currently Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). SOLEs happen collaboratively, both offline and online, or exclusively online.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These resources, sourced from trusted partners, are aligned to state and national standards, and help educators bring the outside world into teaching and learning every day. I am thrilled for all the teachers and students in our district as we start a new chapter in online learning with Discovery Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Online and blended learning continue to trend upward in higher education institutions across the U.S. At the same time, the number of studies of the effectiveness of learning software is huge. A Google Scholar search using the terms “efficacy of courseware” yields over 7,860 search results in a mere.08 According to a.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Some new online courses like The Active Citizen in the Digital Age from Stanford University are already moving us in this direction, helping to foster informed civic participation following the 2016 election. The Slack and Padlet platforms aren’t perfect for facilitating online learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

In moving from classroom-based instruction to online instruction, the role of the faculty member changes from the content presenter to the facilitator of online learning. This session will look at what it takes to create an online learning community that is safe, supportive, interactive, and engaging.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Exactly how many schools are actively engaged in iZone projects is unclear: The NYCDOE press office disclosed that 50 schools abandoned the iZone’s iLearn program between 2015 and 2016 to develop their own blended and online learning materials or to use outside resources including Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music , or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player below. A few years ago, when he was a student at the University of British Columbia, he was an activist on privacy issues and the use of algorithms on campus.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Those easy-to-hand, widely adopted tools cited by Shirky include the ubiquitous Google Docs, as well as more-unexpected ones like the website Genius (formerly Rap Genius). The university chose 2U as its tech partner to help create and run the online program.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 26, 2016

I usually join via Google hangouts or Zoom. We had the room connect to the Google hangout using two devices: the room computer projected the streaming of the virtual people and a mobile device (iPad or smartphone) was used as a mic (i.e. Elizabeth Clark (@jelizabethclark) January 21, 2016. I do not attend anything else).

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 9, 2016

This generation of learners are an iPoding, texting, Googling, YouTubing and Facebooking. For many of them, texting is the chosen method of communication and YouTube is the chosen method of online learning. April 21, 2016 5 Reasons To Have a Collaborative Blog March 1, 2013 Slowing Down Change. He’s absolutely right.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

He is currently working with Apple, Instructure, the Friday Institute, Learning Counsel and other organizations to build authentic partnerships to support his district’s work. His 2016 TEDx talk, “Changing the Conversation About Librarians” promotes Future Ready Librarians, a national initiative he helped develop.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. In addition, NSNO started a personalized learning fellowship in the 2016-17 school year, giving teachers $2,000 apiece to start pilots in their own classrooms. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2017

She used it to stay connected with friends through her school’s Google Chat system and watched Netflix, but also saved time for academics. In 2016 alone, 12.6 “Parents in low-income neighborhoods want to learn along with their children and are interested in being part of the digital age,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 6, 2016

Ben is currently in Kentucky doing his PhD in Online Learning…could you ask for a better pairing? As we start 2016 think about starting a PD journey that time and time again educators have said this is some of the best PD they have ever done. Excited that Ben Sheridan is the lead instructor for this cohort.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

While the term “open pedagogy” appeared with some frequency on my blog for a number of years ( Google site search link ), I believe these posts show the important contours of how my thinking evolved: What is Open Pedagogy (2013), where I first “introduce” (more on that below) and define the term.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. One student plotted a Google Maps route to Boston.

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