eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Online Collaborative Writing Tools: Platforms like Google Docs or Microsoft Word Online enable collaborative writing projects, fostering teamwork, peer editing, and real-time collaboration among students. How does technology help students learn? Online collaboration tools facilitate group projects and communication.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The e-learning trends we identified for this year were: gamification, personalized learning, bite-sized learning, video-based learning, adaptive learning, peer to peer assessment and official degrees for online courses. The seven educational apps that we thought can spice up learning activities were: Kahoot!,

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Gamification Game-Based Learning LMS Trends 170

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) Enter the LMS I was proud, but also exhausted. They bought a learning management system (LMS) and asked us to start using it.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 119

Neo LMS

MARCH 4, 2021

Students feel they are at the center of the learning experience. Read more: Using adaptive learning to personalize learning experiences. From the position of the protagonist, they can affect the course of events during their self-development journey. Foster student agency with these online tools.

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Tools Outcomes Adaptive Learning Video 361

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Educational apps and games can make learning more enjoyable, transforming educational content into interactive and game-like experiences that motivate students to explore and master new concepts. This personalization enhances the effectiveness of teaching by catering to each student’s pace and learning preferences.

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Technology Tools Learning EdTech 52

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Software Digital Learning Sakai Learning 159

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Google Classroom ?

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 53

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

” FocalPointK12 integrates seamlessly with leading LMS and SIS systems including Canvas, PowerSchool, Schoology, Clever, Google Classroom, Buzz and more, making it easy to access for nearly any school nationwide. The full benefits of this integration are immediately available to all current and new EdisonLearning customers.

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Learning Analytics LMS Schoology Learning 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. Many big ideas (or buzzwords) in education technology — from adaptive learning and personalization to the flipped classroom — transcend K–12 and higher education.

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Report Khan Academy Data LMS 66

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The back channel in the classroom is powerful and your LMS (Learning Management System) may serve this quite well. The live interactions also allow for feedback and learning through the back channel process. Many times the LMS (Learning Management System) may have this built in, or you may wish to check one of the options below.

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Assessment Tools LMS Learning 60

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via the Google blog : “ Google introduces Hire , a new recruiting app that integrates with G Suite.” ” Google boasts about “ teaching skills ” using VR. Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.”

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Tech Helpful

MAY 6, 2016

Apps and websites like Kahoot, Socrative, Go Formative, or using school-based LMS quiz solutions allows for more knowledge based on individualized students. The value of professional learning networks (PLNs). As time goes on more and more ways to meet student needs via technology shows positive learning results are happening.

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Blended Learning Future Ready Edcamps Assessment 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. Arguably, the closure of Google Reader was not just a blow to news consumption; it was a blow to blogging as well. Truly some stellar reporting, Mike. The TED Talk.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

In March, Fast Company Ranked D2L #6 on the Most Innovative Companies of 2016 list in the Data Science Category, amongst Google, IBM, Spotify, Costco, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. eLearning Magazine recently rated D2L as #1 in Adaptive Learning, and Brightspace was recently named the #1 LMS in Higher Ed by Ovum Research.

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Online Learning Learning Blended Learning Assessment 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Via the Providence Journal : “Three teachers have resigned from Blackstone Valley Prep after the charter school confirmed allegations that they posted hurtful messages about some of their students” into a Google Doc shared with the entire school. ” Here’s the rub: it’s an LMS. “Can U.S. ” Oh.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

This allows students to automatically access an MP3 version of content added by the instructor into the LMS. Additionally, Blackboard Ally now supports integration with four major learning environments including Blackboard Learn, Moodle, Moodlerooms and Instructure Canvas.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 51

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? Pearson announced this week that it plans to release a free learning management system aimed at the higher education market.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace. Updates and Upgrades Google announced a change to the way it will sell its new Chromebooks.

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Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

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.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” accuse Google of failing to gain their consent before scanning their emails via its Apps For Education suite for advertising purposes,” says Education Dive. ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. “ Apple , Microsoft , Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” says Edutechnica , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing pseudo-LMSes. FoxConn will acquire SMART for $4.50 ” asks Education Dive.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” Google’s Alphabet Inc. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. See: the LMS, the MOOC. and Facebook Inc.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. Now educators can personalize their courses, apparently, which is something no one has been able to do until “adaptive technology” integrated with the LMS.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

To borrow from “ Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence ,” no matter the stories we tell about innovation, no matter the predictions we make about disruption, in time everything in ed-tech becomes indistinguishable from the learning management system. Enhance, not replace. It’s the story B.

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