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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. It will not only know a particular student is good at French grammar, for example. For example, a French grammar course centered on future tenses can have the following competencies: Recognize to form of future tenses in French. Digital field trips .

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

There are many benefits of using learning analytics, as follows: Increase retention and performance: Learning analytics may be used to reduce dropout rates and increase students’ performance. Go after quick wins : Show by example that learning analytics may improve your current learning processes. Benefits of learning analytics.

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates. It’s not a bank.

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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” For example, Oakland Community College, in Michigan, has identified 900 students who in the last six years earned a degree but never had it posted to their records. Really what we’re looking at is systemic problems.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

The campus has lost more than 8,000 students since 2018-2019, with enrollment dropping from 33,500 to 25,000. Several other community colleges and universities across the state have used their federal relief funds to forgive student debt, in hopes that students will stay enrolled or dropouts will return.

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Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts

The Hechinger Report

percent of students who graduated or dropped out of college during the 2015-16 academic year defaulted before the end of September 2018. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. For example, at four-year public colleges, the default rate dropped from 7.5 Choose from our newsletters.

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