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PROOF POINTS: The best way to teach might depend on the subject

The Hechinger Report

Others favor discussions or group work. Project-based learning is trendy. Teachers who allocated more class time to discussions and group work ended up with higher scorers in that subject. Indeed, the way that the 250 secondary school teachers in this study taught didn’t differ that much between math and English.

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Giving Data Meaning: Students Should Have A Say In What Analytics Tell You About Them

Edsurge

When we hear about scaling innovation in higher education, the emphasis is almost always on quantity and increasing the production of post-secondary credentials. Embedded learning analytics are not like rotisserie ovens: you can’t set them and forget them.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

Barnes & Noble Education Buys LoudCloud Systems: The college bookstore operator and provider of digital education services has acquired LoudCloud Systems, a digital platform and analytics provider to clients in higher education, the for-profit sector, and the K-12 community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Volley Labs Raises $2.3

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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. Simon , 1986). The faculty Lumen work with carry an enormous workload.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

But other times, the scenes that were captured were taken out of context or these videos were purposefully weaponized (by conservative groups, for example, who encourage students to film their professors’ lectures and submit their names to “watch lists”). Altius Education. Course Signals. Channel One (and the Unsinkable Chris Whittle).

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