Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Some states, such as Nevada, also restrict the use of state supplemental academic intervention funds to programs that meet federal research standards and are elevating the importance of evidence-based and high-quality instructional materials. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 120

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

And edtech companies cater to this fragmentation in their product design and marketing. Curriculum and instructional materials live on websites, in the cloud, on paper, in LMS’s, in Google Drive or OneDrive. It’s as if you’re furnishing your house one piece at a time with no thought to how they fit together.

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EdTech System Data Company 147

Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Lesson material consists of short videos, text, and practice exercises, or challenges. Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress. Schoology is an LMS that feature assessments, instructional tools, collaboration, and analytics.

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Flipped Classroom Software Tools Classroom 97

techlearning

MARCH 13, 2018

CSUSA assessed students’ reading abilities in the fall, winter and spring using the computer-administered, adaptive screening tool, NWEA™ MAP®. For more than 30 years, the company has been on the leading edge of research and product development as it relates to student reading skills. For more information, visit www.rosettastone.com.

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Comparison Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

AI offers insights and analysis of the effectiveness of their instruction and its outcome. A meaningful trend that has accelerated this year is the importance of having informed parents as stakeholders—it’s something most educators and edtech companies were already thinking about, but it has even more urgency now.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 139

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Twelve years ago, Amplify CEO Larry Berger and I wrote about the “ pareto distribution ” of companies in the K-12 sector. Most revenue was generated by a few winner-take-all companies, then there was a long tail of subscale operators. And a new, growing class of companies may soon join us. We broke through in different ways.

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 78

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

have received billions of dollars in combined donations and gifts from private companies and individuals. Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 166

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

To teach you everything I know about task analysis, I would have to forget everything I know about task analysis. The unfettered sharing enabled by digital resources presents humanity’s best hope for achieving education for all, yet all major education companies work proactively to undermine this capability. References.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60