article thumbnail

10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored blog post.”

Course 343
article thumbnail

20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Engagement I’m in social media groups where frustrated teachers recently commented that their grade books looked like “Swiss Cheese” and that many students were just missing during online learning sessions. You can create a community of learners in your school, your department, and through social media.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Learning.com’s Third Annual Code-a-Thon Open for Registration

techlearning

Educators are also encouraged to use #codeathon2018 on social media to share their school’s progress and interact with other Code-a-Thon participants. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S. school districts and serves more than 4 million students each year.

article thumbnail

Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

The San Francisco-based company is best known for its rostering technology that provisions user accounts for software, and a single sign-on service that makes it easy for students and teachers to log into and use tools purchased by district officials. This latest effort builds on an earlier attempt by Clever to help districts test new tools.

EdTech 124
article thumbnail

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. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145
article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdScoop : “‘Deliberate cyberattack ’ delays online assessments in five states.” ” WeWork, an eight-year-old company that has raised almost $7 billion in funding, has committed to pay some $18 billion in rent. The financial services company has raised $8.9 ” Upgrades and Downgrades.