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29 Sessions to Watch During This Year's SXSW EDU

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Speakers from Newsela, New Market Venture Partners and Academic Business Advisors open up about how the lightning-fast pace of edtech development requires companies to produce evidence for schools in a shortened time frame. Here’s his look at the five major trends impacting these companies—and why countries are launching their own platforms.

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

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Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAwards) from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) last November. The awards recognize educators’ and institutions’ innovative use of digital courseware to improve outcomes for students, especially underrepresented ones. “She 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards. Fisher College.

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How Academic Publishers Can Push the Boundaries of Digital Learning

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Digital learning platforms are not, however, simply a matter of reproducing a print-first approach via high fidelity ebooks. As the financial viability of printed textbooks declines little by little, the demand for alternatives like online learning content continues to grow. Those days are coming to an end.

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Connected Educator Month Kickoff Details! PLUS Library 2.013 Proposals Deadline

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The other part of my job is hosting a nightly CEM "cafe" all month so you can personally meet lots of special "connected" guests--stay tuned!). From Twitter to Facebook and Pinterest to Vine (hey--what about Classroom 2.0 ?!), Connected Educator Month information reached more than four million individuals through the event hashtag.

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Before going one-to-one, this district is helping every kid get home wi-fi

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Put simply, asking a fifth-grade student to watch an instructional video before the next day’s flipped classroom science lesson will fall on deaf ears if the child doesn’t have access to the internet at home. Intent on bridging that gap, Little Falls CSD is working with Albany, N.Y.-based

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection. These important attributes of a PBL classroom need to be intentionally thought out as part of the online experience. Thanks for joining me on this wonderful journey of 21st century (and even before that) learning. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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How to Enhance Any Curriculum With Short, Engaging, Accurate Videos

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Educational videos can be worked into any teaching style, pedagogy, area of study, and type of class—distance, classroom or hybrid. One professor might love the idea of “chunking up” the class with a video break, while another might prefer to assign videos as homework in a flipped classroom approach. Make up for lost time.

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