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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

From grade school to higher education, Smart Classrooms have become a mainstay of the modern educational environment. For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology.

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21st Century School — How Technology Is Changing Education

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The technological advances of the past two decades have changed the world, and education is no exception. Today’s students have access to far more knowledge than their parents once found in encyclopedias and on maps. Tablets, laptops, educational gaming software, and smartphones allow schools to: Personalize the learning experience.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. I don’t have good enough stats to know what Zoom’s market share actually is in higher education.). This discursive emphasis on video in education is based on some reality.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. In light of simmering U.S. During the global crisis, 1.6

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. A room of educators gets schooled on the rigors of mathematical modeling in the life sciences.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. I don’t have good enough stats to know what Zoom’s market share actually is in higher education.). This discursive emphasis on video in education is based on some reality.

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. But they are not done with higher education yet. Child is disengaged.