Wired Campus

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The foundation has already put more than $20 million into grants to seven organizations and their 18 college partners to develop digital courseware that uses adaptive-learning techniques and other approaches. The prize money comes from a $2.5-million million grant to the consortium from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Course 28

Course Adaptive Learning Online Learning Conference 28

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Neo LMS

APRIL 30, 2020

It has advised learners and educators to use its online learning platform. If before fieldwork is required or face-to-face interviews were the norm, allow for conference calls or emailed questionnaire responses from respondents. Read more: Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning.

Learning 267

Learning Assessment Gamification Mobility 267

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It Subscribe to their blog.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. You can’t mix AltSchool and Freire.”. “I She’s a poet.

Adaptive Learning 60

Adaptive Learning Facebook Conference MOOC 60

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. ” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.”

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“For online lenders , it’s suddenly touch-and-go,” says Techcrunch. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Via ESPN : “Police records detail several more violence allegations against Baylor football players.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” EdX has launched some new “professional certificate programs.”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145