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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

Edsurge

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. The data was then sent to Baker’s team at UPenn for analysis.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc.

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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience. This platform is well-equipped with AI-powered analysis and accurate educational software requirements.

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K-12 Dealmaking: GreatSchools Acquires Schoolie; n2y, Thrivist Gain Funding

Marketplace K-12

Together with the CRDC data and the new Schoolie information and analysis, GreatSchools will be able to “highlight issues of equity and opportunity in schools across the United States,” according to GreatSchools. The purchase follows a collaboration this past June between GreatSchools and the U.S. Franklin, Tenn.-based

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UMUC’s Blueprint for Designing a Culture of Constant Innovation

Edsurge

On the other hand, they need to avoid the tendency to measure everything to death, seeking definitive truth in the data detail and bogging the project and the team down with mind-numbing analysis. We have learned how to increasingly use data efficiently to understand how well our learners are doing. When Change Is the New Normal.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Affiliated with the Learning and Collaborative Technologies Group, Institute for Information Technology, Downes specializes in the fields of online learning, new media, pedagogy and philosophy. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.

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