eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This partnership expands its ability to support more schools and districts nationwide, increasing delivery of personalized learning and supporting equitable achievement for all students. We look forward to a long and beneficial partnership through which we can bring personalized learning and enhanced support to more schools and districts.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. A fair amount of education technology comes from what we call "enterprise technology" — that is, the kinds of software adopted by large corporations and government entities.

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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.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Traveling to many schools, engaging with teachers, students and principals, we have seen first-hand the successful (and unsuccessful) introduction of a wide range of technologies. But there are still a number of limitations to the effective use of these technologies at the primary level. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The next best option, typically, is to be acquired by another company, in exchange for cash or stock options. For curriculum management startup UClass , which was acquired last year by Renaissance Learning , the relationship has been less than symbiotic, demonstrating there are growing pains even after a company has “exited.”

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EdTech Company Learning Analytics Report 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Stacey Roshan, Math Teacher and Upper School Technology Coordinator at The Bullis School The Best Data Tools for the Job Depending on the task at hand, teachers turn to a variety of tools that offer data on how their students are learning. loves the learning analytics available from Think Through Math program. “We

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Data Classroom Education Assessment 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

In July, three members from EdSurge Independent, a student-run group that meets weekly to discuss ideas around higher education and technology, joined EdSurge Live to share what they wish faculty knew about students today, and propose ways to fuse instructional gaps. There was also a great deal of learning analytics attached to it.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. This August, Subaru of America, Inc. Read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Companies selling admissions algorithms say they have a fairer, more scientific way to predict student success. They use games, web tracking and machine learning systems to capture and process more and more student data, then convert qualitative inputs into quantitative outcomes. Enter the algorithms. But this play has a purpose.

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Data Learning Analytics Company Assessment 213

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift One India-based tutoring company, Cuemath, trains its tutors to encourage students to talk more. The tutoring takes place at home via online video, like a Zoom meeting with a whiteboard, where both tutor and student can work on math problems together.

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How To Student Engagement Comparison Learning Analytics 125

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

But in order to get the sunlight to do what I wanted it to, I needed to partner with someone else who had the right combination of expertise and technology. But the end product of working with a company who already had the expertise, experience, and knew the relevant technology inside out was far beyond what I could have done myself.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs. Evidence of student learning, achievement and engagement is more pronounced and easier to manage in schools. “I Data: The Driving Force.

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2020

While that particular red flag feature is no longer used by Canvas, Mariachi says she worries that colleges and companies are experimenting with learning analytics in ways that are not transparent and could be prone to algorithmic bias. As to the concern about LMS and other tools leading to institutional racism? Absolutely.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

I want us to think about the ways in which the history of learning – how we tell that story – shapes the future of learning, and how the history of technology (education technology and otherwise) – and how we tell that story – shapes the future of technology. They’re not meant to.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. — Babak D.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 121

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. He anticipates needing to purchase around 2,000 to meet that goal.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “Meet The New California Counterculture: College Republicans ” by the incredible Scaachi Koul. Via Chalkbeat : “Meet the NYC principal in the spotlight for defending desegregation against angry parents.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 42

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ DeVry Parent Company Makes Pledges to Students.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

The Department of Education has released a “Higher Education Supplement to the National Education Technology Plan ,” just in the nick of time I guess. ” They’re suing the company. ” “ Harvard/MIT Report Analyzes 4 Years of MOOC Data ,” Campus Technology reports. ” “ A.I.

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