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The journey to student-centered learning

Neo LMS

And we keep wondering about the high rates of dropout students. And when their specific learning needs are met, the percentage of underachievers and dropouts shrinks, engagement rates and the likability of going to school go up, as well as student performance. Kids don’t learn the same.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

The course was delivered in an online hybrid course, blending asynchronous tools provided within the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) and regular synchronous sessions facilitated through Blackboard Collaborate.

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Wednesday Interview - Breaking the Cycle of Students' Disengagement by Having Them Leave, to Learn

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Wednesday, April 17th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski on their new book, Leaving to Learn : How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates. From the book''s description :) "It''s an alarming fact: in the U.S., Log in at [link].

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” BLACKBOARD'S NEW FRONTEER: Blackboard acquired Fronteer , the U.K.-based

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Tuesday - Ron Wolk on "Wasting Minds"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wolk "insists that the dominant reform efforts have not closed the student achievement gap, reduced the ''scandalous'' dropout rate, or even improved schools. Date : Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate).

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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

The Hechinger Report

To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. Here are five ways we are giving students the opportunities they need to excel: 1.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join this Blackboard Collaborate session here. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. Elliot will share why in traditional schools kids have "no say and no way to get say" and why they are leaving to learn. This is very exciting research! Read more about this study here.

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