eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

Spelling Safari is a spelling curriculum reinvention and software solution providing elementary students with fun and adaptive learning. Research shows mastery-based learning is linked with positive student attitudes and higher student achievement rates for all students,” said Marceau.

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EdTech Education Adaptive Learning Elementary 57

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. If you're teaching 12 students, then you kind of don't need the big data. EdSurge: So what’s the mission of your podcast?

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Learning Analytics Education Data Analysis 157

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Edtech refers to digital technology like operative devices and online software, which has been designed to aid educational learning and teaching. Edtech allows learners to learn and teachers to teach despite language barriers, inability to gather physically in one place, network and bandwidth problems, etc.

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Trends eBook Gamification EdTech 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Who Does Online Education Really Serve? Online education was supposed to provide access to quality education for those who can’t attend or afford traditional college.

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Today, 95 percent of the data work being done in higher education is really focused on accountability analytics—getting data to accreditors, to legislators, to trustees. It's the students' data.

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Data Adaptive Learning System Company 80

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

His fluidity perfectly suits his new role as CEO of Carnegie Learning —a company he believes is on the cusp of transforming itself and math instruction. Founded 20 years ago in the research labs of Carnegie Mellon University , Carnegie Learning provides software and services for 1:1 and blended math learning environments.

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Software Learning Blended Learning Analysis 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. By Alexa J. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In a recent statement, Malvern, Pa.-based

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” Via Infodocket : “Two U.S. a month.). .”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

The report defines personalized learning as “tailor[ing] learning to students’ strengths, needs, interests and experiences.” The authors are careful to point out that adaptive learning software that allows self-paced learning is not the same thing as personalized learning.

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Blended Learning Learning Competency Based Learning System 28

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.

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