Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. Having the technology necessary to access online learning opportunities isn’t enough.

Report 216

Report Survey LMS Digital Divide 216

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Interactive learning modules have the power to engage students, foster active learning, and in the process, enhance educational outcomes. They do this by incorporating active learning techniques and multimedia elements. They also help personalize a student’s learning journey. What are their learning preferences?

eBook 52

eBook Gamification Adaptive Learning Learning 52

TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Perhaps I’m a little jaded, but when I read about Mark Zuckerberg’s and Priscilla Chan’s letter to their daughter which stated that technology would create a world where personalized learning was available to everyone, I thought: “No it won’t.”. We now have higher education that is entirely online. It did not adapt to the students.

Personalized Learning 68

Personalized Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Laptops 68

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

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. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

While the authors of the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan recommended that, “every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards,” this has not come to fruition.

Digital Divide 211

Digital Divide Social Media Microsoft Policies 211

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40