eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Online and blended learning have become powerful solutions to improve students’ access to a high-quality education, regardless of their life circumstances, socioeconomic status or zip code,” said Thom Jackson, President and CEO of EdisonLearning. “As

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 23, 2023

As a higher education publisher, it’s important to keep up with the latest trends and technologies to improve the learning experience for students. One technology that helps with this is eBook analytics. In this article, we will explore analytics and how they benefit higher education publishers, in-depth.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2021

And now the COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest paradigm shift that has affected every aspect of our lives, including how we all see education. And although enrollment in virtual education had been growing steadily year after year, for many of us, it wasn’t a daily part of our routines until the pandemic hit.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience. Educational software can include interactive programs, apps, or digital platforms that aid in teaching and reinforce educational concepts.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Learning Management Systems were probably created for institutions of Higher Education. Colleges and universities were among the first to reach a number of students so high, they simply needed the power of a software in order to manage all the learning and other data points that came along each student. All in all.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The landscape of education has experienced a veritable paradigm shift with the advent and proliferation of technology throughout innumerable facets of learning, a transformation particularly evident in the field of nursing. Online discussion forums, group projects and virtual study groups facilitate peer-to-peer interaction.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 4, 2023

As a higher education publisher, it’s important to keep up with the latest trends and technologies to improve the learning experience for students. One technology that helps with this is eBook analytics. In this article, we will explore analytics and how they benefit higher education publishers, in-depth.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

In fact, the experiment at the Michigan public college could be said to mark a new generation in an area known as “ learning analytics.” And what we’re hoping to learn from Ann and Fry is: What does that look like? We are interested in seeing what types of educational applications we can develop.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The partnership enables device-agnostic access to educators and students, increasing accessibility to help close the achievement gap across the nation. 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

JULY 22, 2020

With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. Having the technology necessary to access online learning opportunities isn’t enough.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The consultants—Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill—are best known for the blog they co-publish, e-Literate , and for their coverage of the many existing edtech meetings held by vendors and associations. Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.”

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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. It’s an invitation to the educators of the world for us all to solve big problems together."

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The act of talking with others—having social debates and conversations—is key to human learning, and this “social learning” has now become an important tenet of teaching and learning. Moreover, creating digital spaces for student interactions in and outside of classes can have multiple additional benefits.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Not everyone in higher education believes that all the work of amassing this data will be worth it, and some worry that too much focus on bean-counting will actually reduce the quality and vitality of college teaching. If the system works, it could allow colleges to do experiments that span campuses that were not possible before. “A

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

But the tools are the first output of a nationwide effort to spread teaching innovation in higher education. That broader project, called the Empirical Educator Project, was started a year ago by e-Literate, a blog run by two longtime edtech consultants, Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Interactive learning modules have the power to engage students, foster active learning, and in the process, enhance educational outcomes. They do this by incorporating active learning techniques and multimedia elements. They also help personalize a student’s learning journey. KITABOO is one such platform.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. And what types of data can best offer insights into whether students are learning in your classroom? How do you collect it? Dan Ryder, an English teacher at Mt.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Connecting leaders across the learning lifecycle and around the world, SXSW EDU serves as a melting pot for the latest approaches to education. What follows is a curated list of the top 10 trends impacting teaching and learning as exhibited in the programming at SXSW EDU 2019. Education Meets Blockchain and the Sharing Economy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

In Boston, conference-goers heard how higher-ed tech will affect teaching and learning in years to come, questioned the values and assumptions behind those predictions, and learned predictive techniques to apply to their daily lives. We have taken the risk out of education,” Collier declared.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I am lucky that these five are not just colleagues but dear friends, and the love and support they have shown me and the solidarity that all of you show today give me great hope that we can build better educational practices and that we aren't stuck with snake oil or fascism. And I should add that it was designed rather poorly for even that.

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IAD Learning

JULY 26, 2017

15 Strategies You Can Follow Today to Successfully Deploy Your Learning Analytics Tool. Deploying a learning analytics tool in your organization brings many benefits, including improving your students’ engagement and their success rates. Lead the project from the learning innovation side, not from IT.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And as many of these technologies do not monitor student performance, learning difficulties are not tracked or identified early; preventing intervention with supplementary and personalised supports. Tip Tap Tap (TTT) provides early years educators with interactive school desks combined with a Learning Content Management System.

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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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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

In addition to regular meetings with partner schools where we share insights both surprising and mundane, this work also supports our continuous improvement efforts to make our open courseware objectively more effective term after term. I spend a lot of my time working in the data generated by use of Lumen’s open courseware.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a statewide public school district in the state of Florida and international provider of education products and services, has selected D2L , a global learning technology provider, to deploy its Brightspace platform as the district’s new learning management system (LMS).

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

GreatSchools Acquires Schoolie: GreatSchools , an Oakland, California-based nonprofit education organization, has acquired school data provider Schoolie , according to a statement. Department of Education on the Civil Rights Data Collection. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ringelstein and Renaissance Last February, Wisconsin-based learning analytics and assessment platform Renaissance Learning acquired UClass , a San Francisco-based startup that billed itself back then as a “Dropbox for Education.” Jack Lynch, CEO of Renaissance Learning 1. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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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. This August, Subaru of America, Inc.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2016

Meeting the Challenges of Real-Time Change. The key to success in both of these initiatives—revising our program structure and improving online experience—is that they tie neatly together, with the learning model being an integral part of the digital university. When Change Is the New Normal.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

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. It is slated to be presented at the March 2024 annual conference of the Society of Learning Analytics in Kyoto, Japan. We also need to coach students to be better learners.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

“I think this is going to be more heavily relied on, with less access to students in person, test scores, and reliable grades, at least for the spring semester and even going forward next year,” says Marci Miller, an attorney who specializes in education law and disability rights. Colleges want to support it, measure it, predict it.

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