Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. Altus officials say they have protections in place to prevent cheating online.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning. But students are also flocking to nonprofit institutions with established online programs, such as Western Governors University, based in Utah, and Southern New Hampshire University.

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for supplementing online coursework with innovative projects like virtual makerspaces, STEAM fairs, coding workshops, drone-enabled virtual field trips, and more. About Fuel Education Fuel Education® partners with school districts to drive personalized learning and transform the education experience inside and outside the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It had been 26 years since the 45-year-old sat in a math course, but in January she found herself surrounded by fellow students, many as young as her sons, at Wallace State Community College, where she now is working on an associate degree to be an administrative assistant. I was very thankful for taking that lab course,” she said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”. Creating access where it doesn’t exist today and hasn’t existed for many people ever is going to be crucial in the recovery.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times. She was hospitalized several times and missed classes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Even as I suggest shortening the undergraduate experience, I also believe we should lengthen the time that alumni have access to their schools, so they can take advantage of lifelong learning interventions. Yet most legislators and educators do not have access to these articles.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday. Cross-posted from the Politics K-12. Former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Even though the biggest leap forward of the last few decades, for example — delivering courses online — appears to have lowered costs , the graduation rates of online higher education remain much lower than those of programs taught in person. The way these kinds of learning get documented is also about to change.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

An intelligent learning platform (ILP) for schools and universities might be the tool you’ll start using soon if you’re a teacher, academic institution leader, student, or parent. Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. . Lower dropout rates.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. Most of them were dropouts.” “In In other places where the internet is available, teachers can work online with the students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. The pandemic, of course, is now triggering additional changes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I was just so frustrated.”.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” It’s not entirely a rosy account. Kindle location 1093).

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. Whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). I chaired the OU''s first big elearning course in 1999 with 12,000 students which really demonstrated the potential for elearning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The Georgetown center estimates that college graduates earn, on average, $1 million more over the course of a lifetime than high school graduates. He adds: “The ability of college to generate a middle-class income has been growing by leaps and bounds and there’s no evidence that will it stop,” though he says the growth may slow.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

That reading deficit slows their learning in every other subject. It also limits the usefulness of closed captioning for multimedia course material. You would think it would be easier, with all the amazing animation in movies. But once a movie is made, it’s frozen in time. The avatar must respond to the immediate situation.

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Assistive Technology Blended Learning Report Data 66

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

They’ve been letting officials know that while they want to see their friends, they recognize the seriousness of the virus and hope districts prioritize student mental health and improving online learning, especially for vulnerable students. “We’re going to be online for the whole fall semester.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Of course, teachers want their students to master content, develop a love of learning and move on to the next grade. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. But these teachers also know that success requires time and trusting relationships. And now it’s all taken away.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. It’s basically kids raising themselves in some of these scenarios,” says Creeden.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. “It’s basically kids raising themselves in some of these scenarios,” says Creeden.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Over a span of three weeks, Navarro helped Jason get his grades up to at least a 50 so he would qualify for summer school and not have to repeat courses the following year. They’ve been through a lot,” said Rubio. They need a mentor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Students like Caleb continue to languish in GNET schools while the lawsuit continues its course. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife and his partner in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is the chair of Summit Learning’s board.) She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). There are no exceptions to this.”

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Betsy DeVos: President Trump delivers on education promises | USA Today → This is an incredible statement: "Trump has delivered on his promise to support school choice and offer students access to quality options.“ Tagged on: February 27, 2017 Limited internet access leaves York Co.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. .” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2 Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. ” $100,000. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Online education, we’re still told, will be education’s disruptor.

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