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

Neo LMS

Using edtech to personalize education for students is already something that many educators do by incorporating technology in teaching activities , such as: Learning management systems (LMSs). According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. The system displays user-friendly competency-related graphics.

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One university has a new college specifically to re-enroll adults who had dropped out

The Hechinger Report

Starting in 2018, while working full time, Golden began taking classes online – first at a community college in Ohio, then at Morgan State – with a resolve she didn’t have at 18. Related: PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Stopping dropouts .

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

In Tennessee, the education system made headlines a few years back when the state announced the “ Tennessee Promise ”—an initiative granting thousands of high school students the opportunity to attend two years of free community college. Our goal is structured around 2018. And now, adults can get in on the action, too. ).

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Data comes from many sources : Student Information Systems (SIS) : provide demographic and academic data. Learning Management Systems (LMS): provide students’ activity records as well as students’ performance information. Other systems: provide multiple types of information. Benefits of learning analytics.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

In spite of mankind’s amazing potential, it is an ironic truism of modernity that our US educational system is losing massive numbers of young learners each year to boredom, stress, and disengagement (1, 2). We know that labeling and stratifying children are a disservice to both the individual and the educational system. (6).

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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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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. Caleb Carman was interviewed on 5/21/16.

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