The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. If only teachers can be more informed during class about things they can’t normally easily monitor, then students might learn better. “You Student psychology appears to be at play.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Its current members include school districts, intermediate units, public agencies, non-profit organizations and companies. The Digital Learning Collaborative brings together innovators focused on improving the education of young people through technology,” said John Watson, CEO of Evergreen Education Group.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

A new report that analyzes 1.48 School leaders expect students and teachers to be using their licensed apps all the time, says Ryan Baker, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Learning Analytics. Many apps, independent of how long or often students use them, have no relationship to learning outcomes.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. based company wants to thwart. The company, however, does not want students to use its site to get tutors to do their work for them. And it’s what the Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. A report was released in November 2018. Apps are increasingly common in U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

And that’s forcing companies and colleges around the globe to reevaluate their data policies and practices. The law also requires that companies get explicit consent from users before sharing data, and includes many other data protections as well. residents honor the right of individuals to have their information removed. institution.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

Right now, tech companies own AI. AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. These companies have HUGE data mines, which will only make AI more powerful.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Tapping into data collected from nearly 10 million K-12 students who read 346 million books and nonfiction articles last school year, Renaissance® releases its ninth annual What Kids Are Reading report. The report is an important annual reflection on reading trends in U.S. To download the full report, please visit https://goo.gl/7YyE3k.

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Neo LMS

MAY 26, 2016

These skills may not develop only in an online learning environment, but they surely aren’t hindered either. In this frenzy of successful schools preparing the next workforce for successful companies, it’s easy to forget about the most important part of the equation: students. Success of online education for students.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. Optimizing Data Reports. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. In 2016, 77 percent of fifth graders in San Elizario Independent School District (ISD) successfully passed the STAAR science test, up from 57 percent in 2015.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

No one solution can address these challenges, and there are dozens of technology companies that promise results for an institution’s bottom-line. Often retention solutions are nothing more than a data aggregation platform used to report facts and figures an institution is already collecting. Engage Students. Gain Actionable Insights.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics. Gamification for Learning. Through our cloud-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS), educators can source and control the delivery of quality and validated educational content from their own tablet, laptop or desktop. Leveraging Learning Analytics. About the team.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

No one solution can address these challenges, and there are dozens of technology companies that promise results for an institution’s bottom-line. Often retention solutions are nothing more than a data aggregation platform used to report facts and figures an institution is already collecting. Engage Students. Gain Actionable Insights.

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Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

No one solution can address these challenges, and there are dozens of technology companies that promise results for an institution’s bottom-line. Often retention solutions are nothing more than a data aggregation platform used to report facts and figures an institution is already collecting. Engage Students. Gain Actionable Insights.

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How To Data Trends Learning Analytics 52

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. The student loan company has raised $803.6 Education in the Courts.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

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 company wanted to see if it could boost student participation so it collaborated with researchers at Stanford University to develop a “talk meter,” sort of a Fitbit for the voice, for its tutoring site.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form. to apply things to the real world.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Districts and schools must track, report, and communicate actionable program data to demonstrate impact and the constructive use of funds. The federal government has evaluation plans for spending at the state and LEA levels: Was 20% at the district level spent on learning loss? Did spending tie back to pandemic-related needs?

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. That makes it hard for students, professors or even journalists to get a glimpse inside.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Personalized learning dates back to a Chicago lab school at the turn of the 20th century, but the concept is having a renaissance because of today’s more sophisticated technology — and the excitement and investment the technology has inspired. And they suspect that education technology companies may be promising more than they can deliver.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

By NICHOLE DOBO, The Hechinger Report. Personalized learning dates back to a Chicago lab school at the turn of the 20th century, but the concept is having a renaissance because of today’s more sophisticated technology — and the excitement and investment the technology has inspired.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

” Via NPR : “Report: Michigan State Spent $500,000 To Keep Tabs On Nassar Victims, Journalists.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Companies like Kaltura, Panopto and Warpwire battled through the year for market share. Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. And it has.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

How much of “personalized learning” as imagined and built and sold by tech companies is precisely this: metrics, marketing, conversion rates, customer satisfaction? They just use different words, of course: “outcomes-based learning,” “learning analytics.”).

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MindShift

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Innovative predictive analytics are essential for businesses, especially tech companies. So why aren’t more of the best minds in higher education doing more to tap those data streams to improve teaching and learning? The information rarely has anything to do with helping improve student learning in real time.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

I believe the alignment of esports to the development of higher order thinking skills and social emotional learning with a path toward college scholarships combined with the high interest of adolescents for gaming activities ensures that esports will continue to grow for some time into the future. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

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. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Department of Education missed a deadline to delay state authorization rules are incorrect, a department spokeswoman said Thursday,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Perhaps we can learn a little about the folks who still do. Via ProPublica : “A Day After Report, Violent White Supremacist Loses Job With Defense Contractor.”

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” “ Smartwatch cheats force Thai students back to exam halls,” the BBC reports.

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