Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” ” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.” ” Spoiler alert: Latinos. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Fallon described the scope of the company’s reach in different areas of K-12, higher education, and professional training.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

By NICHOLE DOBO, The Hechinger Report. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. They really become learners and ready for the process of learning.”. Sign up for our newsletter to get a weekly update on blended learning.

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Or “personalized learning” is the latest and greatest – some new endeavor that will be achieved, not through human attention or agency or through paperwork or policy but through computing technologies. “Personalized learning,” depending on how you define it, dates back to Rousseau.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This surge in demand will continue post-COVID, as schools work to increase their engagement with parents, provide more detailed reporting, and create more efficient, paperless administration systems. Collaboration technology improves accessibility for students with disabilities, illnesses, and other impediments to in-person learning.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” “ Smartwatch cheats force Thai students back to exam halls,” the BBC reports.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

University of Texas at Austin , related to features unique to that university,“ Inside Higher Ed reports. ” As Vox reports, “The Court announced Thursday that it was unable to reach a decision in the case United States v. ” asks The Hechinger Report after looking at the country’s rising PISA scores.

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