Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Tue, 02/06/2018 - 09:13. Since this group has grown up in a high-tech society, they think spatially and in 4D, which is different than past generations. Administrators should access the Danielson Group Framework for Teaching , a valuable research-based tool for scalable observations of instructional practice. meghan.bogardu….

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success. Tue, 04/03/2018 - 14:43. Personalized Learning Aids All Students. An effective personalized-learning approach successfully threads digital tools into the mix , creating a solid fabric for students heading out into the modern working world.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

At least, that’s the idea for Tim Loomer, CEO of science education holding company Science Interactive Group. We’re out there presenting to schools, giving them a choice of dynamic tools,” says Science Interactive Group CEO Tim Loomer. Loomer joined Science Interactive as CEO in October 2018. The Englewood, Colo.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

But ASU has an explicit mission to help more people access higher education — including, Austin says, students from low-income families and students from underrepresented minority groups. In 2018, back when Austin had just earned her Ph.D. One strategy for doing that is investing in online degree programs.

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TeacherCast

JULY 17, 2022

This is an extension of my 2018 version which was one of my most popular downloadable documents for Coaches. By joining the TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network, you will have access to: 3 Distinct Professional Learning Networks designed to help you grow for network other Coaches and Digital Learning Leaders.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

I am excited to announce that after a year collaborating with INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado) and the Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course will launch on February 13, 2018.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Beata Mirecka-Jakubowska , the founder and CEO of Intercultural Education Consulting Group , has 36 years of international classroom experience. She turned to ViewSonic’s 3D immersive platform UNIVERSE with her online graduate students in Indonesia and later tried it with the Connected Learning project team in Iceland. Absolutely.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Last year, Digital Promise, with generous support from Google, launched the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) to continue its effort to close the Digital Learning Gap. Personalized learning—a hot buzz phrase for the 2018-19 school year—occurs when teaching is tailored to meet each student’s unique needs and goals.

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techlearning

MAY 21, 2018

–Renewal of Long-Term Partnership Ensures 58 Member Districts Continued Access to Award-Winning Digital Content from Discovery Education- Silver Spring, Md. EducationPlus is a non-profit, membership-driven educational service agency serving 58-member school districts in the St.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

But SEEK Group , an Australian operator of online educational and employment services, has doubled down on massive open online courses. million in revenues in the first seven months of 2018. Coursera boasts 40 million users and 3,200 courses, and generated an estimated revenue of $140 million in 2018, according to Forbes.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies. Mon, 07/02/2018 - 14:32. When Neosho Junior High School teachers and students moved into a sleek, new campus last August, they said goodbye to traditional classrooms and hello to modern learning spaces that encourage mobility, collaboration and new ways of learning.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. This device can be applied across a variety of activities, from literacy groups to ELL lessons.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

To avoid such blunders, some schools wisely invite faculty to participate in focus groups, not only to tease out objections, but to encourage them to contribute to the effort. It’s best to keep this high-level group running even after the virtual program is established, to assure professors have a hand in remote learning as it moves forward.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 15, 2021

First, educators need to validate students’ experiences and values actively and openly, actively dismantling the power dynamics that reward a dominant group and empowering students. When students feel empowered as learners, they will be more invested in their learning and connect their learning with their lived experiences.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

No matter if you work alone, or are on a team of coaches, it's important for all coaches to have a group of peers that they can turn to when questions arise. In New Jersey, my Ask the Tech Coach cohost Nick and I belong to a group of coaches who meet once a month to discuss what is happening in our school districts. It's great!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

Founded in 2018, Pathstream is one of a handful of companies built and launched by Entangled Group, the part consultancy, part incubator, part investor group based in San Francisco. Other Entangled Group companies include ReUp Education, which raised $6 million in June , and Student Blueprint.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Jodie Winship The first in her family to graduate from both high school and college, Winship is now Chair of Teaching and Learning and Chair of Instructional Leadership and Support at the University of West Alabama, striving to drive much-needed changes in rural education. Report: Why Rural Matters 2018-2019.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. They also learn helpful keyboard shortcuts. Small group work. Students actively learn digital drawing and technology skills while being creative problem solvers.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

She took some intro-level courses at her local community college, and when she applied in 2018, she couldn’t believe she was accepted. It took me a little while to find a group of people that I wanted to be around, and feel like I was connected to the campus,” Burns says. The adjustment as a transfer student was challenging. “It

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

million students earn credentials through more-flexible and affordable digital learning options. The 2018-19 budget presented on Wednesday proposed to open the online college by fall 2019. The college would aim to help 2.5 The governor has long supported the idea of an online community college in California. Previously, Gov.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

Another group debates whether a new bike is a “want” or a “need.” From the 2018 interactive FutureSmart State Report. Supplement At-Home Education with Digital Learning Digital financial education can—and does—play a role in providing students with the financial knowledge they may not receive at home.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started. Date: February 20, 2018. And what I would do is say, “As we go through the unit, I want each group to continue creating and putting things into their jam for that topic.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

EdSurge recently hosted a meetup where we invited a group of experts to weigh in on those questions, and they offered some fascinating insights. EdSurge: Dhawal, can you give us a brief recap on what the MOOC landscape looked like in 2018? Udacity ended 2017 with 500 employees, but they had layoffs, and ended 2018 with 330 employees.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. million in 2018.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When Barbara Ciaramitaro joined Capella University in 2018, she and her fellow faculty members faced a dilemma—what sort of course work could the online, for-profit university assign students that would also appeal to potential employers. million round of funding for the startup. It has really exceeded our expectations,” she says.

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techlearning

JUNE 7, 2018

June 7, 2018 — GreyED Solutions announced today their acceptance into the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Emerging Private Sector Partners Program, which launches this month. GreyED Solutions is a small group of innovative and dedicated leaders who understand education technology as both end users and as developers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

The group brought in Gregg Fleisher to take over as CEO on Jan. After this acquisition, the plan is to integrate its programs with Imagine Learning’s suite of online curricula that currently spans English literacy, Spanish and math offerings. Imagine previously acquired Think Through Math, another digital math product, in 2016.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2018

What if we could apply the subscription box model to professional learning?” As the digital learning, innovation, and design resource teacher for Howard County Public Schools in Maryland, I serve several functions, one of which is to provide professional learning directly to school-based staff. I asked the team.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Public Interest Research Group , a nonprofit advocacy organization that takes a skeptical view of publishers’ efforts to automatically bill students for pre-packaged commercial course materials. That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. Using open-records requests, U.S.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 3, 2019

The more than 60,000 young people that are incarcerated in secure facilities, residences and group homes are learning in alternative-education settings designed to keep them in school or prepare them for jobs once they re-enter their communities. By Kat Crawford. A Competition with a Message.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2018

This year’s theme— Personalized Learning for the Whole Learner —aims to help school leaders from around the U.S. see how their peers are shaping learning environments for students and educators. We’ve drawn from all those experiences to create Fusion 2018. “If The list of speakers is growing daily.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 7, 2022

Digital publishers, the corporate sector, and educational institutions are increasingly using digital publishing tools and learning management systems to create digital assets and impart digital learning experiences. The digital learning tool develops a bug or another issue, leading to downtime.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The best digital tools for the classroom are the ones that provide an easy interface, facilitate collaborations, simplify communication between students and teachers, offer quick analytics for administrators, and are cost-efficient. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. Digital Publishing / July 3, 2018.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Instructure, the publicly traded company best known for its Canvas learning management software that leads among colleges, made two big moves Tuesday in its push to sell to a private equity firm. A group of senior executives will lead the company until a new successor is found through an executive search firm.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Union Square Ventures, Emergence Capital and Leaders Fund also provided equity funding while BMO Technology and Innovation Banking Group provided debt financing. Despite the emergence of digital courseware offerings from publishers and startups alike, printed materials remain a stubborn reality in American colleges.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

Ken Dirkin Dirkin is the Director of Online Professional Learning at Michigan Virtual , a nonprofit provider of digital learning solutions for the state’s K-12 schools. What kind of advice would you give to school leaders who are looking for an LMS for professional learning? You don’t have to do this alone.

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