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What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?

Edsurge

And here’s the most surprising part: that online school it bought, Kaplan University, was a for-profit business—part of a sector that’s been criticized for high costs and poor outcomes for students. It’s hard to think of another example of two more different higher education cultures placed under the same name.

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30 Hilarious Kid Jokes about School

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For instance, a seminal piece by Kaplan and Pascoe (1977), “Humorous Lectures and Humorous Examples: Some Effects upon Comprehension and Retention,” emphasizes that humor not only aids comprehension but also retention of material. Why did the student bring a ladder to the library? To draw his dreams. A root teacher.

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At Local Libraries, Teens Pursue – and Publish – Their Passions

Educator Innovator

Rachel Kaplan, a 16-year-old from Northbrook, Ill., Both teens followed their passions at the library, during Teen Tech Week 2014. This year, Teen Tech Week took on a DIY theme, and libraries across the country offered high- and low-tech avenues for teens to create their own projects. By Maureen Kelleher. Serena Dinh.

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How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

Ask a Tech Teacher

Collect these into a digital library that kids can access online, see what friends are reading over the summer, and find books that appeal to them. Here are several examples: Battleship on Google Sheets. Over time, this will become a valuable summer resource to supplement student reading. Candy Number Crunch in Excel.

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Wednesday's "Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning" Mini-Conference - New Sessions Added

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

The Hechinger Report

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. Many students “could get an associate’s degree, but there’s something bureaucratic that’s standing in their way, like a parking fine, a library fine, they didn’t pay the graduation fee.”.

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7 ways schools can get creative with STEAM

eSchool News

But the move from STEM to STEAM can also impact the way students synthesize abstract mathematical concepts and make new brain connections, according to Denise Douglas-Faraci an associate professor at Kaplan University’s college of education who frequently works with teachers at the intersection of art and math. Share knowledge back and forth.

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