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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. In recent years, Dror-Naim says his team has been building the next iteration of its adaptive course-creation tool.

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Can Online Programs and Digital Tools Help Students Spend Less Money? #DLNchat

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On Tuesday, June 12 the #DLNchat community got together to dive into how improving digital learning could help institutions pass along savings to students, and how technology might also help reduce indirect costs for college attendance. DLNChat — Alex Kluge (@AlexVKluge) June 12, 2018. calimorrison) June 12, 2018.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

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SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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But now it wants to compete with them in their core business of course materials. Top Hat has been steadily expanding its suite of tools ever since the company was founded in 2009, and in recent years has charted a course to “create the next generation of interactive courseware,” says Silagadze in an interview. billion in 2018.

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Small District Offers Students Big Possibilities

Education Superhighway

Over a third of America’s smallest school districts are already meeting the FCC’s 1 Mbps per student Internet connection goal for 2018, according to our newly released 2018 State of the States report. The decision to be an early adopter of OER put the one-school district on the map, earning a visit in 2015 from then-U.S.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. In this series I will provide thoughts and free resources to help you make Blended and eLearning with of course face to face a PBL possibility. 2018 Comp Thinking 1. 2018 PBL A-G.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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SeanMcElwee) April 11, 2018. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? “ Do Online Courses Really Save Money? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. link] — abolish ice.