Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. Authess $2.2

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2019

According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Learning Report, 93 per cent of employees would stay at a company longer if their employers invested in their careers. CPD opportunities for teachers might include: : Workshops, seminars and conferences. Online learning. Professional reading.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Inspired by a University of California, Los Angeles, seminar they attended on data science for high schoolers, Sajor and Sorensen designed the new course and partnered on it with the ed tech vendor Bootstrap World. The course has helped her understand graphs and create and read data in her other classes as well, she said.

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Brainscape

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The makings of great salespeople Companies hire salespeople because they’re go-getters, charismatic, can talk the talk, and bring the deals across the finish line. Salespeople waltz into their positions without the right product knowledge training, and the company’s sales funnel suffers. The result?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thille expressed excitement over the potential to develop better algorithms for personalized learning systems, but also raised concerns that having these developed and kept proprietary by private companies may not be helpful in advancing the field of research in personalized learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

These days, he’s no longer spending time in company boardrooms, but rather in schools and classrooms. Among them: authentic assessments, teacher agency and what he calls the “PEAK” principles that thriving students embody. I think the two most authentic forms of assessment boil down to: Can you teach somebody else what you’ve learned?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The one Galt’s fourth-graders take comes from the CliftonStrengths Youth Explorer, a framework developed and sold by Gallup, the 82-year-old management consulting company best known for its public opinion polling. Waters agrees, saying that most schools don’t really move past the assessment. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

And my background from Amazon, but even in general building a startup company, everything starts with that customer. We run seminars specifically about competency-based education, our approach to it, how you design for it—everything from the program design to the instruction, assessment and evaluation. Yeah, they do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2023

Other no cost learning resources include institution sponsored tutoring programs, online seminars, and self-help guidebooks. Frequently, companies for whom you work as an intern will hire you for full-time positions after graduation. Finally, remember to seek guidance when choosing a major field of study.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. And still, within a mastery-based flipped learning classroom, there would be time to spare for projects, genius hours and Socratic seminars galore.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Simmons: Part of my school’s curriculum is a required first year seminar to make sure you're not just drowning in 400-person lectures. This is what I don't want to learn," but somehow making it flexible to where they could link a specific interest, say, on a specific company or a specific scenario within the overarching course objective.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. So far, the experiment has been successful with students sailing through internal assessments, according to Khan and McGrath. There are currently 50 students, all ninth graders.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2018

As she explored this problem in the McIntosh seminar, Kirr stumbled across the concept of Genius Hour , a teaching tactic based on a practice at Google, that many teachers are trying. So the company instituted a 20-percent time policy, where employees could use 20 percent of their work time on a passion project.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 4, 2017

Textbooks all focus on it, seminars are dedicated to it and training programs will not pass you if you cannot demonstrate it in your classroom. Acquisition is what happens to all individuals while they’re traversing the world, whether alone or with company. What is the teacher’s role in an acquisition-oriented learning model?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It’s not a Socratic seminar where I sit back and just watch it unfold. It’s really powerful.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. The slides are also available here. Thank you very much for inviting me here to speak today. Fantasy. .”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

That never happened, and since then companies like Coursera have been trying to find their niche—and a sustainable business model. But the company recently added a feature that asks users: “What’s your main goal?” “So the learning needs are much, much broader and deep.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

The DOE also has offered professional development seminars for school staff on how to support students coping with grief and loss, a spokesperson said. Frequently, she visited the schoolyard’s “buddy bench” to signal that she wanted company. And Maddie, then 9, seemed increasingly lonely.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The twelve companies aim to tackle a broad range of issues, from kindergarten readiness to helping employers learn about the compliance rules relevant to their work. Roughly 500 companies applied, claims Jonathan Harber, a managing director at StartEd. Dervan will serve as a mentor to the companies throughout the program.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Education today has become large and focused on many things beyond the needs of learners, such as tests, curriculum and assessment. After getting a master’s degree in nuclear fusion (MIT), Kelly held engineering and marketing roles at various technology companies. Mara is the international two-time best selling author of HELP!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

However, as more online learning companies raise their Series D funding rounds , and players from Duolingo to Coursera try to figure out sustainable business models, we’ve reached a juncture where we need to think about the issues of equity that come with chasing paying customers. This will necessarily require subsidized access.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The office manager of a medical technician company, Ruiz was working to validate her medical degree from her home country of the Dominican Republic, so she could practice medicine in the United States. Across the country, parents and educators are struggling to assess and alleviate the pandemic’s toll on young children.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. million from the company between 2010 and 2015 before he stepped down from his role there. Two of the largest companies in 2009 are now bankrupt, and two more are in the process of being taken private.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Ugh. ” Education in the Courts.

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