Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” Via the AP : “A judge ruled Friday that school districts [in Florida ] can’t hold 3rd graders back just because they score badly on a mandated standardized reading test, saying that classroom grades and teacher evaluations have to be considered.” ” More on the patent via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Classrooms.” From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.” I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

The New York Times on The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , an online charter school: “Online School Enriches Affiliated Companies if Not Its Students.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. million total.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” ” Via AIR : “Getting Back on Track: What Math Content Is Taught and Learned in Online and Face-to-Face Algebra Credit Recovery Courses ?” Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. " No s**t.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What Happens in My Classroom During a Lockdown Drill Should Horrify Americans,” writes K. Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. Just you wait… Inside Higher Ed profiles ClassPulse , a(nother) classroom feedback tool. Katzmann in The Trace.

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