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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

They also support students’ self-paced learning needs, their ability to self-assess their skills and provide access to the most suitable content based on their goals, and interests. . Competency-based learning and automation . Student autonomy is not just about letting students learn at their own pace.

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Toilet Paper Hands: Empowering Students With Skills-Based Economic Education to Accelerate Financial Literacy

eSchool News

The learning resources provide comprehensive instruction with practice materials to reinforce the lessons and help students achieve optimal outcomes. The complete multimedia learning system is designed as a financial competencies-based learning resource for educators.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

This article originally appeared on the Clayton Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer.

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Chinese Edtech Sees $1.86B in Q1 2019, Bucking Plummeting Venture Trend

Edsurge

Within the Chinese education sector, three sectors saw a concentration of investments: competency-based education; language learning; education “informazation.”. Source: JMDedu Investors put their money into 29 competency-based education companies—or almost a quarter of all the edtech investments—during the first quarter.

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OPINION: Why we need a new pedagogy for our post-Covid future

The Hechinger Report

Early in the lockdown, my 10-year-old daughter learned how to use a sewing machine by watching YouTube videos. Before her school began offering live virtual instruction in September, she spent a good deal of time in the basement making pillows, handbags and other articles of clothing.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. So do most ed-tech companies. ” John Rice. . ” Jerry Snow.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

Neo LMS

These classes also open the door to self-paced personalized learning. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Read more: 8 Strategies for increasing student self-efficacy in online education.

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