Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. Reflecting on the process of shifting from on-campus to online teaching reminds me of a recent experience in my personal life.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Teachers are revered , most families spend about a third of their income on their children’s education, and most students spend at least an hour a day on some kind of online learning. It’s also a place where companies are racing into technologies that raise tough ethical issues. That means many of the tutors live in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. In Colorado, rural districts have worked together to offer more AP courses by creating video conference classrooms, where kids at one high school can watch courses taught by a teacher at a neighboring school. Quality can vary greatly.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Now, with the widespread cancellation of schools and conferences (where investors and entrepreneurs often meet), edtech investors are advising startups to heed Sequoia’s advice. Companies should be thinking about their cash runway, watching their burn and making sure they are comfortable with where they are at right now,” says Carolan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. To date, 2U runs 58 such programs at 36 universities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. ATTENDING: The sessions and links will appear in the regular conference schedule pages for each time zone. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom. Candy Mowen Candy Mowen, MS Ed.,

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In many cases, their response wasn’t up to par – they just replaced lectures with video conferences! Read more: Actionable advice for educators to move to online learning. With so many engaging, technological resources at hand, resorting only to Zoom or Google Meet is almost a sin. Videos engage students the most.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. She’s also leaned heavily on edtech companies who are making their paid products available to schools in Asia free of charge. Here in the U.S. In classes like English and History, things are going well. “I

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. In Colorado, rural districts have worked together to offer more AP courses by creating video conference classrooms, where kids at one high school can watch courses taught by a teacher at a neighboring school. Quality can vary greatly.

Online Learning 31

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The ideas that came out of that meeting, and a similar one that took place two years ago, form the basis of a new Stanford-hosted website, “ Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education. ” McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. The site launched Sept.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Filled with thousands of interactive exercises, online learning games and virtual rewards, Doodle transforms math practice into a rewarding activity that children look forward to. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Also, all HCNS educators enjoy access to the Discovery Education Network. Discovery, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. New ways of teaching and learning are needed to make sure students prove they’ve mastered topics before earning a diploma, they say. “Why Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Students protesting.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

Often employing Second Life super-users to design and create the environments, they can be “high-concept”, such as exploring giant molecules, or as simple as developing cross-cultural meeting spaces where students gather to learn from and interact with each other.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Flipped classroom models empower students to do classroom work at home using multimedia presentations and online learning platform resources. The app integrates with Google Drive, Classroom, and Sign-On, simplifying the online learning environment for Google districts. Google Meet. SurveyMonkey.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Ed tech companies are benefitting from the rise of impact funds. In September 2019, a young Canadian ed tech company called Classcraft announced that it had raised $7.5 One of the main things Classcraft plans to do with its new money is build its sales force to sell its gamification software for social-emotional learning to schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2021

A suite of award-winning K-12 digital resources and instructional supports, Discovery Education Experience meets the changing needs of KCPS’s diverse student population in the remote, hybrid, or online learning environment. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2019

According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Learning Report, 93 per cent of employees would stay at a company longer if their employers invested in their careers. CPD opportunities for teachers might include: : Workshops, seminars and conferences. Online learning. Professional reading.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2019

That guest is Mitchell Stevens, a Stanford University professor who is the director of the Center for Advanced Research Through Online Learning. We modeled those convenings specifically after some other meetings that also occurred in the 1970s in advance of the sequencing of the human genome.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. A blended learning experience should be far beyond basic online or e-learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

A growing number of colleges are turning to for-profit companies to help them run their online programs, and to help finance them. These companies are known as online program managers, or OPMs. EdSurge: Where did these outsourcing companies known as OPMs come from? The relationships can mean a clash of cultures.

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My Island View

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

I recently attended the annual conference held by , the New York State ISTE affiliate organization. It is a favorite conference of mine, since I served as a board member of that organization for about six years. It is also both comprehensive and progressive in the way of education conferences.

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 14, 2022

Often, in higher education, accessibility is often a medical condition that prevents a person from learning in a traditional way (labeled "disabled") thus requiring accommodations. Digitally, there are accommodations or finished products that must meet a certain standard when designing an online resource or course.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 86

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” That conference generated a flurry of essays and commentaries about the confusion over how the internet was changing human cognition and memory.

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edWeb.net

MAY 25, 2021

While teachers and administrators were doing double duty with virtual and in-person classes, there were many kids that did better with online learning. Virtual sales meetings benefit both educators and vendors. Virtual works well for one-on-one meetings, and it’s easy for either party to reschedule as needed.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The sweeping new federal education law, and schools’ evolving demands for “personalized learning,” are likely to dramatically alter the work of K-12 district leaders over the next few years, school superintendents heard this week. See also: Personalized Learning: What Companies Need to Know.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? My first question is how did you start?

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2020

She speaks regularly at SLA’s EduCon conference about how to change schools to meet students’ needs. Educators have also helped families sign up for the internet at home, but there are still significant obstacles to making sure students have the connection they need to learn. Starting the school year with testing won’t help.

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Learning With Lucie

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

This semester I took on a new challenge, teaching a course called Innovations in Education: Maker- Centered Learning class that is part of Marlboro College Graduate and Professional Studies Honestly, I was a little nervous about teaching this class online. Despite my reservations, this course has turned out to be a true joy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Starbucks did it for a much more interesting reason, which is, Starbucks wants to be an exemplar of what a 21st-century company can be. Among ASU’s experiments is something called Global Freshman Academy, designed as a low-cost way for students to go online to complete the first year of coursework at ASU before setting foot on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. Eventually, however, they found companies willing to do business with them, including Huawei in China and Florida-based Airspan Networks.

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

If we know this is the best type of professional development, and we have research that shows time and time again that the traditional PD model adopted by schools; the one-off PD day, the yearly conference, the after-school two-hour session, do not lead to improved teaching or changes in student performance. Then why do we keep using them?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. NovoEd raised $4.8

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. Tuesday, April 14th at 11am 2015 NMC Summer Conference Preview , Join the NMC and our panel of 2015 NMC Summer Conference presenters on Tuesday, April 14th at 8am PT / 10am CT / 11am ET (check for local time).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

Please visit the new conference website at [link] and we hope that you''ll consider attending and/or presenting just one month from now on May 1st! conference - Library 2.014 - also opens today. This two-day, free online conference is designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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