eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

These state level purchases may include anything from Student Information Systems (SIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Assessment Management Systems (AMS), to Learning Object Repositories. States are often looking for best-of-breed in each system, rather than all in one packages, making open systems and interoperability critical.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

About Instructional Designers I think a lot of people believe that instructional designers are the people who are really good at using the campus LMS – folks who can create new course shells for faculty, help faculty get their content uploaded into the LMS, and maybe even help with a little multimedia editing and production.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If a meaningful portion of the OER community continues its insistence that educational materials be zero-cost, and continues advocating for institution-wide, system-wide, or state-wide zero-cost policies, that zero-cost advocacy will exclude students from having access to the most powerful educational technology since the creation of the internet.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I maintain a dataset of all education technology investments and all education technology investors. Glaring in its absence from this list: “personalization,” one of the most trumpeted technology “solutions” this year. (I’ll The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is no exception.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

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Schoology Advocacy LMS Strategy 54

Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This is a summary of a conversation I had with our school’s library media specialist (LMS) Kari Kabat. How are schools helping students develop 21st century skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, inquiry and technology skills)? Investing in an LMS is essential.

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Libraries LMS Learning Technology 58

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In fact, for many faculty, simply using a hosted WordPress site or uploading a free PDF into their LMS is beyond their technical capability, available time, and institutional support. But this strategy only uses technology to replicate what we could already do with printed books – facilitating the reading of static words and images.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

PowerSchool is my SIS and LMS and is the sponsor of today’s show. And you know, I’m kind of technology agnostic in some ways. I like technology. But what I saw recently were three kids that were using VR technology, and the stories are a little different. Where does this technology fit? It doesn’t scare me.

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This is a summary of a conversation I had with our school’s library media specialist (LMS) Kari Kabat. How are schools helping students develop 21st century skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, inquiry and technology skills)? Investing in an LMS is essential.

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Libraries LMS Learning Technology 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children. THRIVE IN EDU Rachelle Dene Poth ( @Rdene915 ) Spanish & STEAM Emerging Technologies Teacher WEDNESDAYS, 4:00 PM US-EASTERN TIME. Show starting date: Already ongoing!

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Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 68

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “Preparing for the Post-LMS World ” by Jonathan Rees. Via MIT Technology Review : “ Oculus hopes its $399 headset will bring virtual reality to the masses.” National) Education Politics. million total.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. D2L EMERALD RELEASE ( www.D2L.com ) D2L launches its Emerald Release — the newest version of its Brightspace LMS — which provides a social, mobile-friendly teaching and learning experience for people around the world.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

ALMA START ( www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies launched an enrollment and admissions management tool called Alma Start. As part of this collaboration, ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology will also be integrated within Blackboard Ally as an offline audio alternative for course content.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 50

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? implementing novel DRM in proprietary content delivery platforms).

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 63

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. Via Campus Technology : “2017 Ed Tech Trends: The Halfway Point.” ” $100,000.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. Apple , as always, helps us see how criticism-free technology journalism can be.

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Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

. ” Via The Clarion-Ledger : “Contracts between the Mississippi Department of Education and two of the state superintendent’s former co-workers appear to duplicate technology-related services while costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. ” Via The Atlantic : “How ‘ Daycare ’ Became ‘ School ’ ” Via Edutechnica : “4th Annual LMS Data Update.” .” From the EdTech Researcher blog : “ Project Based Learning as Mindset.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Via GeekWire : “ Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K–12 technology.” Offering “modules” in an LMS is, apparently, newsworthy. Via Campus Technology : “ Johns Hopkins U Website Ranks K-12 Reading, Math Programs Under ESSA Standards.”

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” From the story: “Online education company Udacity plans to branch out of its core technology market to meet growing demand for digitally-skilled workers in areas such as banking and the car industry, its co-founder told Reuters as the company launched in Germany.” ” Kudos. ABA English has raised $13.7 million total.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60