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Approaching an Online Computer Science Degree: What You Need to Know

EdTech4Beginners

Understanding the Online Learning Environment Embracing the online learning landscape is the first step toward your academic success. Prospective students should prepare to adapt to a virtual classroom setting, where interactions happen through screens and learning materials are predominantly digital.

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

Edsurge

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? You don’t have to be a member to attend.

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Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment

Neo LMS

Today we’ll look at grading and assessment, and how technology can assist teachers to streamline the process, as well as extract more valuable information on how students are tracking on their learning pathways. It also has a rubric maker that aligns entirely with the Common Core standards, which is very handy. Grade for completion.

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

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Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Instructure Acquires MasteryConnect for $42.5 Million to Expand K-12 Footprint

Edsurge

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 Of that figure, about $12.3 million will be paid in Instructure common stock, according to a U.S.

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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. The problem is trying to blend them effortlessly into a class LMS or learning platform without lots of extra clicks and logins. To me, the growing popularity of web-based curricula is no surprise. Who is Kiddom?

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

Quality Standards: Consistently applying the same standards of quality to all curated OER is critical to any certification process. Considering factors such as level of authority, depth of learning, structure, advertisements, effectiveness, etc. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards.

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