techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners. Ally is designed to integrate with a school district’s existing LMS and automatically runs class materials through an accessibility checklist that looks for common accessibility issues.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017. TI-NSpire CAS BLENDING THROUGH COLLABORATION PATCH has a lending library of tech awaiting learners’ eager hands. The school uses Google Apps for Education, PowerSchool SIS, Canvas LMS, and tools like Imagine Learning. Canvas LMS ?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

— Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist) November 16, 2017. People certainly locate and learn from a wide range of resources in a wide range of informal settings in public libraries and online, but that’s not what I would call “adoption.” All integrated cohesively within the LMS.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

“The Library of Congress No Longer Wants All the Tweets,” says The New York Times. Via Edsurge : “ OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. ” “OER is about to become for course planning what LMS is for grading,” which frankly sounds awful. . “It’s anybody’s guess.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein continues to fight the LMS fight: “Fear and Loathing in the Moodle Community.” ” This seems to fly in the face of the library profession ’s belief in privacy. .” And Buzzfeed reports that “Peter Thiel May Be Looking To Buy Gawker.com.”

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” LMS news from Edsurge : “​ University of Michigan ’s Gamified LMS Opens Up to Other Institutions.”

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via The Student Loan Report : “Halfway Through 2017, Here Are the Best & Worst Student Loan Servicers.” The Harvard Library Innovation Lab on link rot : “A Million Squandered: The ‘Million Dollar Homepage’ as a Decaying Digital Artifact.” trillion in 2017. You’re the worst.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” It’s 2017, and Wired still promotes a narrative that “ hackers ” are all young men. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. percent from 2017 to 2021.”

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

The elimination of funding for 18 other independent agencies , including the National Endowment for the Arts , the Corporation for Public Broadcasting , the National Endowment for the Humanities , and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. link] pic.twitter.com/Vcf7DsuDYg — Mark Zohar (@markzohar) March 11, 2017.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The Digital Public Library of America has a new head : John S. My latest calculations on VC funding in education : “The Business of Ed-Tech: October 2017 Funding Data.” ” From Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Fall 2017 Edition.”

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. Via Chalkbeat : “New York City’s largest school charter network, Success Academy , has won the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools.” ” – data about LMS adoption from Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via Bklyner.com : “ Brooklyn Public Library and Bard College to Offer Free College Degree Programs in 2018.” pic.twitter.com/0oMZuYGFbD — Mike Bowen (@DrMBowen) November 8, 2017. And from Phil Hill : “A Note on Data Used for LMS Market Analysis.” ” The Business of Student Loans.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill on layoffs at the LMS Schoology. The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. The Girl Who Drank the Moon , written by Kelly Barnhill, is the 2017 Newbery Medal winner. ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec. ” Contests and Awards.

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