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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

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Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. CiTi also supports innovation “clusters” for the banking and travel industries.) Humanity’s future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25. Yet their prospects are perilous. Yet the U.S.

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

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These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. In contrast, many microschools today include mixed age classes but take advantage of new learning technologies to make the small school model more feasible.

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Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’

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And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. Revel, another line of digital courseware, will soon be released on the Global Learning Platform. This enables us to offer prices that are highly competitive,” says Fallon.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. The growing space industry requires a diverse workforce beyond the conventional role of engineering.

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Two Lexia Learning Products Honored in the 2018 Tech Edvocate Awards

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Lexia Learning today announced that its personalized literacy programs Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) and Lexia PowerUp Literacy™ (PowerUp) were both honored in the 2018 Tech Edvocate awards. The online student dashboard encourages students to set goals and take ownership of their learning.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Within higher ed and between higher ed & industry. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE. Or, as Evan Smith suggested, “Websites of state coordinating boards could list objectives cross-listed for, e.g., both secondary and post-secondary levels.”.