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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

Here are a few guidelines to help you create successful online PD for teachers: Establish what teachers need. You can do this by gathering a focus group of teachers from a district or school, by handing out surveys or by observing them while they work. Hundreds of teachers are interacting daily through Twitter, Reddit, Quora etc.

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Survey reveals why teachers aren’t embracing social media

eSchool News

Survey reveals that the majority of classroom educators shy away from social media integration. A new survey finds that just 13 percent of participating educators have used social media as part of their classroom learning. The University of Phoenix College of Education survey of 1,002 U.S. Lack of training could be to blame.

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Improving Ed-Tech Purchasing

Digital Promise

The Johns Hopkins University Center for Research and Reform in Education surveyed district leaders, educators, and learning technology developers from across the country for this study, with a subset participating in in-depth interviews. Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter by using the hashtag #EdTechMarket.

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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

Edsurge

The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, was meant to show that small behavioral interventions, like asking students in a pre-course survey to describe when and how they planned to fit the required course work into their lives, would significantly improve completion rates in large online classes.

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Survey: Social Media Is Failing To Find Traction In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

Survey: Social Media Is Failing To Find Traction In The Classroom. A University of Phoenix® College of Education survey conducted online by Harris Poll in April among 1,002 U.S. Create student social media guidelines. You can search and connect with experts on Twitter, Skype and other social media networks.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

UDL has reordered the principles and guidelines, to begin with, Multiple Means of Engagement, the Why of Learning that compliments how the Design Thinking Process involves learners in identifying an authentic problem or challenge. They may interview, do observations or survey them about the problem.

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Having Trouble Hiring at Your College? Try Improving the Jobs.

Edsurge

Most recently, I thought about it when I read an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a survey of managers in which 84% of respondents said hiring for administrative and staff jobs in the last year had become more difficult. Then after they’ve left, they see the ad for their job with the new title and better salary.

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