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Developing a Research Base to Evaluate Digital Courseware

Edsurge

Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by.

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What’s At Risk When Schools Focus Too Much on Student Data?

MindShift

Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement. Software also collects information on students all by itself.

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Key Digital Skills for 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

You can do that by adding interactive elements such as live quizzes, polls, surveys, trivia, etc. Some of the best tools to create interactive presentations include Canva , AhaSlides , Pear Deck , Slido, Haiku Deck, Google Slides, and many more. Check out the best presentation making tools for teachers to learn more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The company: RIB Software SE. DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6 ” Another one from Singer : “For Sale: Survey Data on Millions of High School Students.” ” Questionable survey data is questionable.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. And “free” doesn’t last. Without revenue the company will go away.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” “ Google is jeopardizing A frican-American literature sites ,” says The Outline. ” Via KQED’s Mindshift : “Setting School Culture With Social And Emotional Learning Routines.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” 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.