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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

This is pretty rare in the courses I’ve seen. Consumer Skills – Learning to comparison shop for cars, houses and being an informed consumer. A two-year nationwide survey of 2,500 students taking the course showed knowledge gains in 90% of the students taking this free course.

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How This Company Gives Voice — and Value — to Virtual Collaboration

Edsurge

They can be used to provide feedback, co-author, narrate and even host asynchronous meetings. We worked with a professor teaching a history of photography course fully online. It was just like our original thought: a digital artifact was worth so much more after the voice had been added to it. They just misunderstood the instructions.

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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

Edsurge

Meet with a professor on Zoom to talk about academic plans. Attend student government meetings. Students who study on campus tend to come for career and tech courses, learning about, for example, welding, or scientific diving, or aquaculture. Cook breakfast for a classmate celebrating a birthday. Swim in the ocean as snow falls.

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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Everything else pales in comparison. Student welfare, of course, is comprised of many elements, including teaching and learning, student mental health, student safety, and, importantly, student data privacy. Lightspeed Digital Insight has been built to help schools meet regulations and save time while managing third-party policies.

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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term. A way to help impatient college students better connect to jobs American adjuncts earn a median of $3,700 per course , an amount that has declined significantly when adjusted for inflation, the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, says.

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Little Passports Vs. KiwiCo – Monthly Subscription Box Comparison – Is Kiwico or Little Passports The Best Educational Toy For Your Child?

Fractus Learning

Little Passports Animals Wild, Kids Meet 100+ Animals For Age Range 3-5 Years. We’ve got a lot of experience with both companies products. Two moms launched Little Passports in 2009, and since then, the company has become an international brand with exciting choices to keep kids entertained and engaged.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

Edsurge

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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