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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

There are myriad ways to promote student autonomy in the classroom and beyond, especially if you use an LMS. Flipped classes. The flipped classroom allows students to acquire new concepts at home via engaging videos, online courses, or even game-based learning. Ratings and reviews .

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

Edsurge

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. So he struck up a partnership with Cengage Learning, a Boston-based education technology and information company. Wallinga saw his students continually stymied by gateway math requirements. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards. Fisher College.

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How Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Highlights the Hybrid, ‘Omnichannel’ Future of Higher Ed

Edsurge

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

eSchool News

Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range. Intent on bridging that gap, Little Falls CSD is working with Albany, N.Y.-based

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. The Flipped Classroom". And “free” doesn’t last.

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