Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Indian online education startup Byju’s, which already reached the billion-dollar valuation from private investors in 2018, can now claim a new distinction: “decacorn.” 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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The speakers included Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, Amy Ahearn, associate director at Acumen+, Kapeesh Saraf, head of growth and consumer products at Coursera, and Kristin Palmer, director of online learning at University of Virginia. But the big change in 2018 was MOOC-based degrees.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends. Another big trend is to take a softer approach to school discipline.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Brown asked California Community Colleges chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley to “take whatever steps are necessary” to establish an institution that only offers online programs. The 2018-19 budget presented on Wednesday proposed to open the online college by fall 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2020

Alumni-reported data from Strada and Gallup reveal that in 2018, fewer than half of students had a mentor in college. Large investments to support online learning have not been matched thus far with investments to support online connecting. Colleges looking to shore up these gaps will need to connect students in new ways.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Cali Morrison (@calimorrison) March 27, 2018. Farrar (@sent1nel) March 27, 2018. Register now for the EdSurge webinar, How Analytics Can Support Student Success in Higher Ed , April 25, 2018 at 12 pm PT | 3 pm ET. DLNchat [link] — Prof Straight (@RyanStraight) March 27, 2018. DLNChat — Joshua K. What do you think?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 31, 2018

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. Here’s a look at some of our “must-read” stories from 2018. Can online learning level the AP playing field in rural classrooms ?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

October 4, 2018 (Washington, D.C. October 4, 2018 (Washington, D.C. The 2018 EBF is the 15 annual installment of the ed tech event focused on industry trends, legislation and policy impact, professional development, networking, and investment in education technology. Ash Kaluarachchi, the co-founder of StartEd, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But like many trends in education, the novelty took hold before the evidence mounted. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

Research shows it can be hard to create educational media that does in fact teach children the way they need to learn, however. One 2018 study found that few apps marketed to preschoolers were actually educational. Subscribe today!

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 27, 2022

Information and communication technology (ICT) brings in multiple benefits for digital learning and student-centric engagement. The ICT trends in education shaped the schools and universities to implement the latest in education technology in order to improve the teaching and learning process. Collaborative Learning.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 16, 2020

Whatever reason you may have for turning towards the virtual realm of education, you can’t deny that online learning has become the norm. Research and Markets predicts that by 2026, the worldwide online learning sector will hit $336.98 within the period of 2018 and 2026. . Hop in the AR / VR trend.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

Pickett (@alexpickett) April 26, 2018. Visual notes of our Lightning talk on #VR #AR #XR and future of education at the Unconference of Dreamers, Doers & Drivers Shaping the Future of Learning @ASU #higherEd @emorycraig @mayaig @DigitalBodies #shapingedu pic.twitter.com/Unqh5a4Ad8 — Maya Georgieva (@mayaig) April 27, 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. Guenther and her husband, Jacob, are emblematic of a trend underway in the small town of Onalaska. Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? Returning families.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

From the landmark 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report—which sounded an alarm about student achievement and national competitiveness in the Cold War era—to today’s renewed attention to civic education, new trends in American education are often rooted in deep concerns about the present and the future of the country. These efforts are ambitious.

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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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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Many schools still lack the resources to implement 1:1 learning. The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. This, in fact, is an ongoing trend. These include remote or online learning and research. What are the ways in which will it be used?

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

In a survey of this community conducted in June, more than half of the respondents said they use online learning tools every day, and nearly 80 percent said they use games, apps and digital books at least several times a week. And many of them have expressed a desire for digital tools. In 2012, the Center received a $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Every vendor claims to have the best learning platform which benefits students and teachers. What then, is the differentiating factor which you should look for while selecting an online learning platform? Here in this blog, we will highlight some of the features that must be present in a learning platform.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Online delivery has the potential to vastly multiply those kinds of collaborations. He said the trend has also been propelled by broader acceptance of online education by faculty at liberal arts colleges who once looked down their noses at it — and by the awareness that their own jobs may be on the line if students stop coming.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

And students are experiencing a flexible type of learning they may not like as undergraduates, but could return to when it’s time to get a graduate degree. Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

According to a March 2018 NBI report, there are 89 verified or “emerging” net-zero schools (emerging means under construction or too new to have been verified yet). While the net-zero school trend is still relatively small, it has taken hold in districts of every geographic and socioeconomic description.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO. Her research interests include online instructional design, discovery and digital literacy. Spring Summit, The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO. Her research interests include online instructional design, discovery and digital literacy. Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Market data and services firm MDR has updated a wide-ranging survey it last fielded in 2018 about teachers and tech, and the resulting report, “How 2020 Shifted Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom,” illustrates how COVID-19’s disruptions have upended some edtech trends and accelerated others. Popular educational apps.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school In seven states, the rate of chronically absent kids doubled for the 2021-22 school year, from 2018-19, before the pandemic. James, 12, has autism and struggled first with online learning and then with a hybrid model. They encouraged him to return, and he did.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. For example, at the nonprofit where I work, nearly 190,000 people have signed up for our MOOCs in 2018 compared to around 145,000 last year and 177,000 in November, 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The program he’s referring to is an online learning platform, Edgenuity. During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. Online learning platforms like that where you don’t have a teacher just scream, ‘Nobody cares about you.’”.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Equal access to online learning opportunities has continued to be a challenge, with the focus expanding beyond access to devices and hotspots and now including high-speed access for all students. Schuler is the 2018 Illinois and National Superintendent of the Year. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. Dr. David R.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Instead, the thinking goes, students must be encouraged to learn at their own pace, with lessons tailored to their specific aptitudes and needs, often with the aid of technology. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Schuler is the 2018 Illinois and National Superintendent of the Year.

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