Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. In Arizona, the House Education Committee introduced HB2421 , a bill allowing for schools to create distance learning courses.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 138

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Dan is a respected authority in educational technology and artificial intelligence. As Director at Edufuturists, he is committed to shaping the future of education through technology and innovation. Just how much that technology had progressed. Dan holds an M.A. There was email. A basic browser.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. PublicSchoolWORKS became possible in the late ’90s when the government launched the E-Rate Program. This can negatively affect student progress, grades, and even graduation rates,” explains Temming.

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E-rate Software Report Company 100

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

In many cases, the use of digital tools, platforms, and applications has helped to boost student engagement, grow pass rates, and increase retention. RCCC’s e-Text initiative has saved students up to 50 percent on the cost of their course materials, and has increased classroom engagement and retention.

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Data E-rate Course Tablets 60

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

10 Minute Teacher - Episode 780 Top Tech Tools for Equity and Inclusion Teresa Magpayo Castro - Technology TOSA for the Unified School District of Hacienda La Puente USD. Ricardo Recinos - Technology TOSA in Hacienda La Puente USD and a supervising instructor for John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Click Here to see Readlee.

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Accessibility Tools Microsoft Data 385

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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Microsoft Accessibility E-rate Company 97

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage. So they wanted us to be gracious.

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Laptops Smartphone Course E-rate 202

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Employees pay $1 a day to participate, and the company covers “tuition, books and fees,” according to an explanation of the program on the retail giant’s website. Gallagher says that past studies show that about five percent of employees take advantage of tuition benefits by companies. Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 All you need is your imagination.”

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 124

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. You can’t do anything that we can’t go back and fix for you using our magic Undo button and our versioning histories of course.”

Google 175

Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Teachers can easily manage esports teams by focusing on managing students rather than being experts in the games or technology. Equipment for esports can often be repurposed from existing technology used in other classes. And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state.

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E-rate Education Meeting Industry 362

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms.

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Software Trends E-rate Coursera 99

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

Also: What is a former consultant-turned-technology executive doing running one of the most-cited experiments in higher education?). Pulsipher: All of my background prior to WGU is mostly within the technology space. We think differently around how to utilize technology to advance outcomes and help the students progress.

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Outcomes E-rate Accessibility Course 77

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. I dislike fraudulent courses. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. Peak Performance Mathematics Bridge Program —a six-week summer course for students who place below the first math class in their chosen field of study. For some students and courses, Fisher combined EWA with tutoring and modular courses.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 83

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. CMS is implementing Essential Physics in all 19 high schools that offer physics or honors physics courses.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 63

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. References Bjork, E. This requires aiming to be much more than the "Netflix of Education."

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Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. This begs the question: What’s next for education? Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. Apple backed down. classrooms.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 78

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 88

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. I used distance education courses to complete a Masters degree and soon was involved in distance education delivery for a local community college.

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Some reflect neither the spirit nor the current state of this technology. Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. They tout “holistic” review yet boast about incoming students’ high test scores and aggressively try to increase applications so that they reject more, which lowers acceptance rates, which increases their perceived “selectivity” and moves them up in the rankings.

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E-rate Assessment Report Examples 110

The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2017

It used to be that 1:1 technology access was a novelty. Furthermore with companies like Neverware which can turn most any old device into a high-speed Chromebook, cost and tech support are no longer the barriers they once were. pen, paper, notebooks, ruler, calculator, reading material, drawing materials, etc.).

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Chromebook Internet Safety E-rate Laptops 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. This begs the question: What’s next for education? Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2023

Now that it’s been a few months, I’m like, ‘Well, yes, of course, AI generates anything.’" - Karen X. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations. For five or more use the institutional pricing below.

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Course Tools Libraries E-rate 82

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2023

Now that it’s been a few months, I’m like, ‘Well, yes, of course, AI generates anything.’" - Karen X. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations. For five or more use the institutional pricing below.

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Course Tools Libraries E-rate 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Failure of Education Technology HACK EDUCATION NEWS ROUNDUP And here, in full, is the Hack Education weekly roundup, also available directly at Hack Education.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 4, 2018

Dr. Laurie Korte talks about e-learning design that engages learners and common mistakes of e-learning and blended learning classrooms. And I’m a technology teacher, and this was a technology class! Why do they all have to be in every single course? She teaches online and gets all these great ratings.

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Strategy Learning E-rate Course 173

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. For some people, the policy shift had immediate consequences, as fortunes fell when stock prices for China’s giant edtech companies crashed. Photo by jianbing Lee / Shutterstock.

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EdTech Company Industry E-rate 149

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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EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 130

ViewSonic Education

JULY 30, 2023

And thanks to evolving technology, this is all possible. With a variety of all-in-one solutions that fit your company’s needs, it’s possible to make an amazing investment for you and your team. Making sure you choose a company that has your best interest in mind is vital. ViewSonic provides a solution for this.

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Meeting How To Software Conference 345

Doug Levin

JULY 31, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. As such, expect an abbreviated (TBD) publishing schedule for ‘A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News’ in August. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Company Data Blended Learning 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Among its recommendations, New America calls on policymakers to “expand the E-Rate Program so that libraries and schools can get discounts on the technology services that patrons and students need to get online from home.” Zoom-ing Out the Door The teacher shortage has been well documented. 2,200), U.S. 37 percent) or the U.K.

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Libraries Survey E-rate Report 140

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150