Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

EdSurge connected with Cavanagh (online of course) to talk about what he has learned from all those podcast chats, and about how his sidegig as a detective novelist shapes his work in campus innovation. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen.

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Learning Analytics Education Data Analysis 161

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

There is also the US Department of Education’s Learning Registry, which contains resources created by various parts of the US Government. Yet these systems do not often talk to one another—and that poses a problem for teachers trying to find the best resources. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C. They also should share their goods.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

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. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

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. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

” The education technology industry, meanwhile, keeps making it easier for teachers to record and share information on students. Check out the “dashboards” inside programs like Google Apps for Education, or freestanding gradebook apps like JumpRope, or ClassDojo, focused on behavior.

Data 28

Data Knewton Report Software 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? The initiative aims to help boost education, health and employment in disadvantaged communities in the U.S.

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

It chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos, a company that promised to revolutionize the medical industry by running a complete slate of tests using only a drop of blood (rather than the more voluminous quantity of blood that can be rather frightening to have drawn). DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

ASSIST has expanded the system with content for every grade level, K-12 through Higher Education. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome. update improves usability and functionality across the system. Incorporating end user feedback, the 10.0

Epson 50

Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 50

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).”

Examples 40

Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

If you want to track your learners, if you want to see the progress of your learners, if you want to bring in the information from the quizzes into your learning-management systems, then you have to buy. And if you’re using maps, we want you to use Google Maps or GIS and those kinds of things.

E-rate 28

E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 10, 2022

For long organizations have been using Learning Management Systems (LMSs) but as training requirements started changing, there was a strong realization of the need for a more diverse and robust learning environment. How can digital publishing tools bridge the learning gaps in K-12 education?

eBook 52

eBook Outcomes Learning EdTech 52

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The region boasts an unusual concentration of highly-valued tech startups—Domo, Qualtrics and Inside Sales are among them—along with big education companies, including Instructure, the developer of the Canvas learning management system. 2:00PM: TrumpED: How Will #45 Change the Learning and Work Landscape?

Coursera 75

Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 75

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Larry Hogan (R) declared via executive order that beginning in September 2017, the Maryland school year won’t start until after Labor Day – a decision that prompted sharp criticism from school leaders, who are accusing Hogan of favoring the tourism industry over education.” ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

Education 52

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Different industries have contributed to the trend. All of these developments are helpfully disrupting the for-profit college industry that preyed upon low-income students for far too long.

Coursera 112

Coursera MOOC Education Khan Academy 112

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Perhaps, as developmental psychologist Edith Ackermann argued this year, the “ maker ” movement will serve as “ Papert’s Perestroika ,” thawing the school system’s reluctance to embrace constructionist practices. And what does that oft-repeated phrase “ learn to code ” even mean ?

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

What sort of health – of our bodies, our systems – are we really working towards? Sea Monkeys, x-ray googles, and invisibility helmets, much like all education technology products, base a lot of of their marketing on assurances and performances of scientific amazement and technological progress. What are we promising?

Conference 63

Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

There’s more for-profit higher ed news – and how the Trump Administration has deep, deep ties to this industry – in the for-profit higher ed section below. of Texas System Picks Former CUNY Leader as Its Next Chancellor.” DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. million total.

Education 43

Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Via The Atlantic : “Two radically different bills aim to overhaul [ Detroit ’s] beleaguered school system. Why Don’t All School Systems Do This?” Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Nevada System Chancellor Resigns Over Email Flap.”

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “The University of California system has agreed to pay $1.15 Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

Education 40

Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Historically black universities have been dropped from a controversial North Carolina bill slashing tuition at certain institutions to $500, but worries about the legislation’s effects remain high at two universities still facing tuition cuts – and across the state system.”

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Via Wired : “Ex- Google Employee Claims Wrongful Firing For Criticizing James Damore ’s Memo.” Via The Verge : “ James Damore ’s labor complaint against Google was completely shut down.” The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7

Education 46

Education Company Data Elsevier 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A bill backed by President Trump and announced Wednesday aims to reduce overall legal immigration by half while putting in place a new points-based system for applicants for employment-based green cards that would privilege graduates of American universities.” ” Education in the Courts.

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via The San Francisco Chronicle : “ Dev Bootcamp couldn’t tough out industry shakeout.” “Students who can’t afford uniforms in New Orleans all-charter-system are routinely barred from attending school. Via the Google blog : “ Google introduces Hire , a new recruiting app that integrates with G Suite.”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40