Assessment Books Dropout Online Learning 
Kitaboo on EdTech
DECEMBER 4, 2023
At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.
Bryan Alexander
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions. Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). It’s not entirely a rosy account. What do you make of it?
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2018
What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? They are in charge of their learning,” said Hayden. “We
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
APRIL 15, 2014
Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. Books Gone Wild. Read more and register for this event here.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 16, 2017
The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Photo: Chris Berdik.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
In a dense, polemical book called “The Flickering Mind,” he warned of the industry’s tentacular reach into schools, steered by futurists such as Seymour Papert, the co-creator of the Logo programming language, who had a habit of proclaiming, every 20 years or so, that schools had 20 years left to either adapt or die.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 21, 2017
Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.” “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.
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