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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

So we got some very passionate phone calls and lost a lot of time in the classroom. And that is a very conservative number, based only on time saved using the top six critical core web applications from Pearson, McGraw-Hill, PowerSchool, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Google Classroom. So many things.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? It is important to ask, argues Deborah West, director of the Office of Learning and Teaching for Charles Darwin University, in Australia, because professors are often left out of planning for so-called “learning analytics.” Don’t forget about Europe and Canada!

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

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. Pearson officials have been talking about shifting away from being identified as simply a publishing company for years now.

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? What is personalized learning?

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. IBM Watson, which has partnered with Pearson and with Sesame Street, to “personalize learning” through data collection and data analytics. Perhaps they do. Trump’s tweets this morning about Berkeley.

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