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.” The lawsuit is still pending. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

EdTech 60

EdTech Company Learning Analytics Report 60

Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Often retention solutions are nothing more than a data aggregation platform used to report facts and figures an institution is already collecting. To be successful, the student equation needs to be a fundamental piece of an analytics platform. To address retention, tools need to be comprehensive, approachable, and affordable.

How To 52

How To Data Trends Learning Analytics 52

Omega Notes

JUNE 9, 2020

Often retention solutions are nothing more than a data aggregation platform used to report facts and figures an institution is already collecting. To be successful, the student equation needs to be a fundamental piece of an analytics platform. To address retention, tools need to be comprehensive, approachable, and affordable.

How To 52

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.” Via The New York Times : “ Stanford History Event Was ‘ Too White and Too Male ,’ Organizer Admits.” Research, “Research,” and Reports. Education in the Courts.

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Buy them a beer when you see them at an event and thank them for covering the LMS industry so I don’t have to. “Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School,” Education Week reported in August.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Conferences ran streaming video events. 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. Whole-Class Learning is Here.

Trends 111

Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

” Via NPR : “Report: Michigan State Spent $500,000 To Keep Tabs On Nassar Victims, Journalists.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.” ” Apple held one of its big media events this week, this one focused on education.

Education 45

Education Robotics iPad Company 45

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.”).

Personalized Learning 83

Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This surge in demand will continue post-COVID, as schools work to increase their engagement with parents, provide more detailed reporting, and create more efficient, paperless administration systems. The educational sector is now also appreciating the value of data analytics. –Russ Davis, CEO and Founder, SchoolStatus.

EdTech 114

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 114

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.

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. 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. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” Via the CFPB press office : “ CFPB Report Finds Consumer Complaints Spurred Actions That Brought More Than $750 Million in Relief for Student Loan Borrowers.” ” Ed-Tech Events.

Education 48

Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bob Thorpe, is proposing a far-reaching law in Arizona, House Bill 2120, banning virtually every college event, activity or course which discusses social justice , skin privilege, or racial equality. dissertation at the university,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. More on the report via Edsurge.

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

University of Texas at Austin , related to features unique to that university,“ Inside Higher Ed reports. ” As Vox reports, “The Court announced Thursday that it was unable to reach a decision in the case United States v. ” asks The Hechinger Report after looking at the country’s rising PISA scores.

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60