Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

For Ryan Baker, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center of Learning Analytics, there is one thing in particular he’d like school leaders to keep in mind: providing better tech support for students and families. “I I definitely didn’t count on much tech support from my school district.”

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Report Survey LMS Digital Divide 217

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. Related: Designing accessible ed tech can be costly, but demand is on the rise.

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Software Data Education Company 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning.

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 What is a “Platform”?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. The student loan company has raised $803.6 The Business of Financial Aid.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

I think the hype is definitely over. This is particularly true of the sort of learners you might want to reach with MOOCs (people who cannot access normal higher education for instance). 6) There has been at least 20 years of research into online learning, and over 40 years of research into distance education.

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MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Around the same time, I arrived at Kelvinside to take on the role of head of languages after six years as chief learning architect at Kuato Studios, an educational games company based in London. NuVu first came on KA’s radar in 2017 when Ian Munro, the Scottish school’s rector, was studying at Harvard. In the U.S.,

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Groups Learning Analytics Assessment Robotics 102