edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

At ISTE 2015, Common Sense Education will provide a sneak preview of the latest version of Graphite, designed to help educators learn fundamental edtech teaching skills. Share your vision for the future of edtech using #EnvisionEdu. Readiness for Personalized, Digital Learning with Metiri Group. Can’t make it?

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OER iPad EdTech Twitter 40

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

ESSA: What Edtech Providers Need to Know : Whiteboard Advisors Senior Vice President David DeSchryver and Education Week Senior Editor Sean Cavanagh break down one of the biggest federal education policies to pass in the last decade: the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. EdSurge 4:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Research from the Pell Institute and Institute of Educational Statistics shows the gap in bachelor’s degree attainment between the highest and lowest income groups has widened since 1970. It is time to be more systemic and strategic. Is there any hope for change?

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Strategy OER Course System 60

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” Via The Intercept : “Chinese Corporation Alibaba Joins Group Ghostwriting American Laws.” Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. The idea of eLearning progressed and soon incorporated the Learning Management System (LMS). This task requires students to huddle in a group and write ideas on a large sheet of paper.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). In the new model, students usually pay a per-course fee that covers digital texts and homework systems.

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 120

EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

In some software, gating is a way for teachers to lever up or hold back individual students so that they can surge forward if they are high achievers or remain with a group. Intelligent learning engines inside immersive courseware will give future teachers the ability to leverage the best in software development and systems.

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Learning Software E-rate Industry 100

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

making instructional resources widely available via open educational resources (OER), which may include supporting school districts in using OER. Part II) appeared first on EdTech Strategies. To be eligible for funds, every state will prepare and submit an application to the U.S. The post U.S.

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Policies Technology Education OER 258

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Volunteering : as with our other conference 2.0 Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

This is the edtech industry’s premier financial conversation, packed with more than 4,100 people and 350 CEOs. General Assembly, one of the pioneers of the “bootcamp” model for coding and technical-skills training, found a buyer : the Swiss HR firm Adecco Group. Morning yoga, evening karaoke. No, it’s not a spa vacation.

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 109

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The region boasts an unusual concentration of highly-valued tech startups—Domo, Qualtrics and Inside Sales are among them—along with big education companies, including Instructure, the developer of the Canvas learning management system. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here.

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 75

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

through-MOOCs program launched, its College of Business says it is seeing the contours of a model it can use to promote the university abroad, enroll previously untapped groups of students and attract corporate partners.” A Wi-Fi system. A Techcrunch op-ed : “Why edtech can’t grow as much as healthtech.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“Testing group says no; others are unconvinced.” “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. ” asks Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum. ” Indeed.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The biggest chain of for-profit colleges that is still overseen by an accreditation group axed by the Obama administration – and given a second chance by Betsy DeVos – failed this month in its initial bid to get recognition elsewhere.” Group Battling Her Campus Appearances.”

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition). Tech devices won't fix our education system | Lockport Union Sun & Journal → Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently issued a plea for greater student access to high-tech tools. "This Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. McRaven is stepping down as chancellor of the University of Texas System. ” “ Systems thinking ,” I guess, is the new entrepreneurial “mindset.”

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Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 46

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Betsy DeVos Picked A Student Loan CEO To Run The Student Loan System.” ” Teacher of the Year indeed. The Business of Student Loans.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of North Carolina system Board of Governors voted 24 to 3, with one abstention, Friday to bar litigation by the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights. ” The center, as the name suggests, does legal work for civil rights and low-income groups.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes. ” The Department of Education has rehired student loan debt collectors fired by the Obama Administration: Enterprise Recovery Systems and Navient-owned Pioneer Credit Recovery.

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Speaking of horrors: “ The One Group Not Freaking Out About Brexit: VCs.” The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. But oh look, Pearson – which wants you to buy its proprietary badge system, Acclaim. edtech https://t.co/DOo11lof2f

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade From Higher-Ed Groups.” Via Alternet : “ Gavin Grimm Wants To Fix The Education System That Failed Him.” The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. Now It’s Rebooting.”

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A bipartisan group of 30 attorneys general signed on to a letter Thursday opposing House legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act over a provision that would bar states from regulating student loan servicers.” ” Local law enforcement will be able to “tap into the system.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” The groups, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council , both advocate for “gay conversion therapy.” Smith has been named the next US poet laureate. ” “Whither Moodle ?

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” Kaleidoscope Group has raised $1.3 Education in the Courts.

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Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via the San Jose Mercury News : “A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for a state audit of a profitable but low-performing network of online charter schools following this newspaper’s investigation of K12 Inc., Via Edsurge : “Chasing China ’s Edtech Unicorns: A Cautionary Tale.” ” Ugh.

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Quality Assurance Commons for Higher & Postsecondary Education is a new group that is exploring alternative approaches to accreditation in higher education. Edsurge on the Injini ed-tech accelerator in South Africa : “Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator.”

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

6,263,439, titled ‘Verification system for non-traditional learning operations.’ ’ What kind of ‘verification system’ does Solocron claim to have invented? The University System of Maryland joins edX. According to Edsurge’s calculations , “US Edtech Brings in $122M in June.”

Education 40

Education Company Report Data 40

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Elsewhere in for-profit higher ed: “ Veterans Groups Seek a Crackdown on Deceptive Colleges,” The New York Times reports. million total.

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Via Edsurge : “ Office of Edtech Wants Help Making Sense of All Those Higher Ed Providers.” Via Chalkbeat : “Top school choice group advising Puerto Rico on controversial efforts to expand charters and vouchers.” Paul School System.” Edsurge on the business of OER.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Via Inside Higher Ed : “After the State College of Florida replaced a tenure-like system with three-year contracts for all new faculty members, some complained.

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” ” The students allegedly used the group messaging app GroupMe to collaborate. Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley. Sounds scandalous.

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. This coding bootcamp was acquired by the University of Phoenix’s parent company, Apollo Education Group , in 2015. His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). Sounds Familiar.”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” “ No Sign of Edtech In Department of Education’s Full Federal Budget Proposal,” Edsurge frets. I really like the part where she compares those who defend the current education system to “flat-earthers.” Keeps Obama Plan to Streamline Loan System.” Implications for K–12 Business.”

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Education Data Report Software 46