EdTech Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Back in 2017, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee reported that nearly 12 million children lived in homes without a broadband connection, but the problem made few headlines. The following year, the Pew Research Center found that 15% of U.S. households with school-age children did not have a high-speed connection at home.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. The “accent” of a digital immigrant (preferring a printed report rather than one online, for instance) strikes digital natives as odd.[4]. September 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Holmes County Central High School is one of eight rural schools participating in a new, blended learning AP Physics program. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2, million online courses in 2014-15.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2017, Stephen DeRue, dean of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, wrote a Forbes column arguing that, in order to make higher education more affordable, we needed to move towards an “iTunes model for education.” “In Now, the price points for online learning products are widely varying. monthly minimum wage.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2018

A federal report on students’ home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. “We think there’s a big problem, and we need good data around it,” says CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. “This is critical.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Megan Brenan, a research consultant and Gallup who worked on the poll, said the uptick in the reported engagement in online learning is not surprising, and she expects to see it inch higher in subsequent weeks as districts formally roll out their remote learning plans. As of 2017, about 14 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

The number of K-12 students enrolling in full-time virtual and blended learning schools continues to grow, despite research suggesting that students in these programs do not perform as well as their peers in traditional settings. It could also be because virtual learning programs demand lower operating costs than a traditional school.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

’s Study In their research paper “ Lessons Learned: Design and Implementation of Italian Blended Language Courses “, the authors Fabbian et al (2017) provide a number of interesting examples of blended learning in Italian language courses. Why Did You Blend My Learning?” Fabbian et al.’s

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But the depth of this problem was obscured as most states, and thus most newspapers, reported achievement trends by comparing each new year’s eighth graders to the previous year’s eighth graders. The post OPINION: Middle school math is a unique problem that needs more attention appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

“As early as late February, institutions really had to pivot the way that they were recruiting international students traditionally,” said Mirka Martel, head of research, evaluation and learning at the Institute of International Education. Think virtual campus tours and online recruitment events. Many come from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. We could neither travel nor meet in person. Still, we were taking a risk.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Based on real-life applications and digital tools, lessons in Essential Skills for Remote Learning guide students through technical concepts in a fun, game-based environment. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S. school districts and serves more than 4 million students each year.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Bond was founded by Mary Meeker, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins whose annual “Internet Trends” reports have become a must-read for the technology industry. Byju’s claims its online learning app, which offers instructional videos, live classes and practice questions, is now used by more than 57 million students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In more than a half dozen studies, researchers have found that students did far worse in online courses than they did in person. Some studies, like this one at Irvine, have found that students are more likely to graduate if they take online courses. I would be really curious to see a study of online education 20 years from now.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2020

Not only does she need more specialized support than many students, but her vision challenges and other impairments can make online learning difficult. Advocates, educators and parents say that kids with disabilities are particularly vulnerable as schools shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus and turn to remote learning.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. took at least one online course. Without modern technology and near-constant connectivity, online learning wouldn’t be possible. According to the National Center for Education Statistics , a further 33.1%

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The speakers all pressed that digital learning, and in particular online charter schools, are falling short for students and teachers. There has been a huge explosion of online learning and edtech in our schools… and online education is privatizing education through for-profit companies and their apps,” said Haimson.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Source: “Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning Platforms,” August 2020 Learning at Scale. In early trials in which 11,000 students completed more than 370,000 online homework problems, the teacher hints seemed to be more effective.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

And between 1976 and 2017, the Latino proportion of all students enrolled in college rose from 4 to 19 percent. This story about Latino students was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Unfortunately, the pandemic has set us back several years.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Inside Higher Ed (IHE) recently issued their 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology and we were excited about the big initial finding that more faculty are teaching online and that more are finding that online learning can meet the same outcomes. We have taken issue with other reports for similar issues.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. A follow up report in 2019 found similarly dismal results. You have infinite material to pull from in real time.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Online learning makes it more difficult for students and teachers to form close, one-on-one relationships. When I, Jaiden, entered high school in 2017, I had just started identifying as transgender, and it was scary. She could have secretly reported me to a counselor or simply ignored my issues. Jaiden Blancaflor, 17.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

A recent report by Burning Glass Technologies , a labor market analytics firm, confirmed robust demand for real-time 3D skills, with 30,000 job postings in the US between October 2017 and October 2018 and a 601 percent higher growth rate than the market overall.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company has raised nearly $120 million and is valued at $425 million, Reuters reports, and “would aim for a higher valuation in a sale.” In 2017, bootcamps graduated at least 23,000 students, their highest count yet, and that the industry is growing at a rate of 1.5 and internationally.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2020

As of 2017, about 86 percent of U.S. That still leaves millions without, and under the banner of equity, America is arguing about whether to move schooling online as schools shutter to stem the spread of COVID-19. But they are not learning as well as they could be. Clearly, the system can be better. There is a path forward.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to a recent report by the Department of Labor , over half (66.7%) of all of 2017’s high school cohort are currently enrolled in colleges or universities. The online advantage. We have discussed before the critical need for universities to adapt to the online learning disruption.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. Photo: Kaitlin Gillespie for The Hechinger Report. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. ONALASKA, Wash.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. Department of Education’s 2017 National Education Technology Plan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. The post Experts call for an end to online preschool programs appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report. For that to work, though, he said the state needs to create more infrastructure, such as a centralized guide to online courses, to help schools get there. The Gates Foundation is among the many supporters of The Hechinger Report.). Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2019

The work is funded by Fremont Street , a Boston-based philanthropic fund founded in 2017 to focus on supporting small- and medium-sized districts in mostly suburban and rural communities – places that don’t already get a lot of outside funding and attention for education innovation. Sign up for our newsletters.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well. Knewton, an adaptive learning engine that became a digital courseware company, was reportedly bought by Wiley for way less than it raised.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

But for some online education companies, the upheaval represents a chance to profit. Last month, Hechinger reported that website traffic was surging for some ed tech companies. Between 2017 and 2019, K12 spent on average $37.4 Meredith Kolodner contributed reporting. This story about K12 Inc.

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