Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. ” Lesson learned #3: Don’t chase trends. The list goes on and on.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And even in a classroom setting, such practices are not helping creativity, according to research. Getting a C is just the first step in a process of actually learning something, not the demonstration that you hadn't learned it. There's actually something valuable to being in a classroom with other people.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. ” Lesson learned #3: Don’t chase trends. The list goes on and on.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.

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Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. ” “ Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. My daughter, Madison, went to a “real school” until 6th grade, when we began to design learning experiences for them ourselves.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6 Vive la MOOC révolution.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

After pointing out that many of the folks who are investigating “personalized learning”—including both MindWires and EdSurge—have received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the article goes on to quote grantee after grantee saying variations of the same thing: “Meh. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom. This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . by Terry Heick.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 20, 2015

And lately, education has had its share of innovation, whether it’s showing up in your local public school/K-20 classroom or not. Perhaps this is old hat for you, but there may be a teacher still understanding how to implement technology in the classroom. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Virtual Classrooms.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Freedman: How is this different than companies like Toolwire, or Second Avenue Learning, or Smart Sparrow? A lot of the technology that’s built for the classroom is organizational technologies like, Hey, organize this better, organize that better, get a lot of stuff out of there. We do hybrid classrooms.

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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.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms. Online Learning and Non-traditional Students.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” ” From the Lenovo website : “Lenovo™ Introduces Lenovo Virtual Reality Classroom.” The “adaptive learning” company has raised $23.5

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The school: the Electronic Classroom of the Future. The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via Chalkbeat : “Can in-house child care keep young teachers in the classroom? ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” ” JFC.

Education 43

Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.”

Education 51

Education ProctorU Company Robotics 51

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. classrooms in new deal with McGraw-Hill Education.”

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.). But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?” It's religion.

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Classrooms.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. .” From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” a month.). .” ” Oh. Cyber Charters , Study Finds.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

Education 40

Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). 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.” million total.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Education Dive.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What Happens in My Classroom During a Lockdown Drill Should Horrify Americans,” writes K. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. Katzmann in The Trace. Newkirk II in The Atlantic.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake? My response : “Inequality, ‘Brand Ambassadors,’ and the Business of Selling (to) Classrooms.” Almost Certainly Fake.” million total.

Education 45

Education Broadband Company Data 45

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Teacher on Paid Leave After Confederate Flag Found Hanging in Classroom.”

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40