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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

Welcome to your summer crash course in online education. And you won’t be graded for this course—at least not by us. Some students may encounter challenges participating in online courses, either because they don’t have technology resources or because they need special accommodations. Is your course mobile-phone friendly?

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Same for Matific, which gives students math practice tailored to their skill level, and Edgenuity, which develops online courses. Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

Many of the organizations, which are listed alphabetically, have free tools, research, case studies, and resources that can seamlessly be utilized and implemented at the district and school levels. All of these organizations are shifting the needle and working diligently to support school leaders nationwide.

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OER and you. The curation mandate

NeverEndingSearch

In other cases, you may be able to download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. OER include lesson plans and supporting scaffolds, handouts and workseets, courses, electronic textbooks, media, simulations. and Mary Reiman (NE). The site will feature left panel filters to refine searches.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. Case studies show: the validity of predictive models applied to learning analytics, interventions with at-risk students are effective, and. Does it work?

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Building the Right Infrastructure to Support Mobile Learning

techlearning

Security and efficiency are important, of course, but supporting instruction and learning goals for individual classrooms, schools, or districts has unique challenges. Leveraging E-rate to help students stay ahead of the curve Today’s students learn about the world and their social life on mobile devices.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.