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Number crunch: Edtech data you can use right now

eSchool News

A study of open educational resource collections found that nearly 90% of higher education online repositories were created either in Europe or in North America; 92% of the material in the Open Educational Resources Commons global library is in English. Is it equitable? Is it scalable?

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3 Ways to Overcome High Student-Teacher Ratios and Improve Personalized Learning

EdTech Magazine

3 Ways to Overcome High Student-Teacher Ratios and Improve Personalized Learning. According to the most recent data, student-teacher ratios in public schools currently average 16 to 1 — with some states as high as 24 to 1 — meaning regularly adjusting lessons on an individual basis is, for most teachers, aspirational at best. .

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How to prepare students for the jobs of the future

eSchool News

Less than twenty years ago, a student saying that they wanted to be a data scientist, digital artist, app developer, virtual assistant or blogger would’ve been met with confused faces and the standard “what’s that?” ” —Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education. question from parents and educators.

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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

Edsurge

Since then, I’ve built award-winning educational CD-ROMs, led the development of formative assessment, curriculum management, and student data systems like Schoolnet and Powerschool, and most recently, managed strategy for Pearson’s $6 billion global product portfolio as its chief product strategy officer. Which brings me to.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

The real power of digital technology to increase learning remains untapped. As for MOOCs, in 2012, the elites in higher education discovered online learning, which many others felt they had already invented and improved over the previous 15 years. However, we have approached learning solutions in a piecemeal fashion.

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How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet?

The Hechinger Report

As many as 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs by 2030. We’ve all heard the dire predictions about the coming robot apocalypse. Automation threatens 47 percent of jobs. Middle-class families will be hit the hardest. Chris Burns has heard these sorts of predictions, too.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Since classes went online, however, nearly a quarter of students in Detroit haven’t been logging in or showing up, many because they don’t have laptops or Wi-Fi Credit: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again.

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