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The journey to student-centered learning

Neo LMS

This post was originally published on October 31, on Education Technology. In case it’s not clear by now that the above lines are not at all about a train journey, I must say I’m actually talking about our educational system. And we keep wondering about the high rates of dropout students. All aboard!” 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. TEACHERS KNOW BEST, 2015. And how did the schools who hosted the courses react?

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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. Charlie has served as an independent consultant to education and business since 1976.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. DECODING DIGITAL LITERACY: Ask 450 educators to define “digital literacy,” and you’ll likely get dozens of answers. DECIPHERING ‘DATA’: Yaschin also offered this analogy for how educators can think of Big Data: “There are descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.

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Tuesday - Ron Wolk on "Wasting Minds"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Tuesday, September 4th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Ron Wolk, to discuss his book Wasting Minds : Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It. education system. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

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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. Higher Education. He previously served as the district’s special education supervisor.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Remember that ISTE starts a day earlier, so the Hack Education Unconference is on Friday, June 27th. ISTE Unplugged.

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