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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Now, some educators—and consultants—are calling for edtech consulting firms to be held accountable for whether or not their million-dollar advice translates into improved, measurable learning outcomes.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. blended learning).

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School Improvement: Strategies That Can Make It Happen

edWeb.net

Feedback invites schools to consider different strategies if desired outcomes do not materialize. Schools lead conversations about achieving outcomes through evidence-based strategies rather than the state directing them. The district provides tools and learning opportunities to strengthen schools’ efforts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” Via The Hechinger Report : “How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.” ” The company has raised $16.5 ” Fox.