eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

As part of its #SavvasThanks campaign for Teacher Appreciation Week 2021, Savvas is making a donation to EveryoneOn.org that will provide free high-speed Internet service to 100 families with school-aged students who are in need of reliable WiFi in their homes for digital learning. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY.

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MAY 16, 2019

But the idea reminded me of an interview I did with Bill Gates back in 2012 for The Chronicle of Higher Education, when he lamented the lack of clear benchmarks for evaluating colleges. “If What did Gates suggest should go into such a metric back in 2012?

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MARCH 5, 2021

It added: “If these few situations, or any additional misconduct, cause all online learning programs to be viewed by the public or policymakers unfavorably, we may find it difficult to enter into or renew agreements with our partners or attract additional learners for our partners’ programs.”

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 24, 2012

Image Source On Tuesday, June 19th, 2012, I attended iPadpalooza at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. Digital Learning in Belton ISD In spite of the challenges of the first year of large-scale implementation, the 1:1 initiatives have been fruitful in Belton ISD. We can email them for editable copies of their stuff.

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APRIL 13, 2023

An Unusual Backstory When MIT and Harvard each invested $30 million to start edX back in 2012, it was surprising news. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

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MAY 6, 2021

The publicly traded, game-based learning company announced Thursday that it was acquiring Clever, a digital learning platform used widely among K-12 schools in the U.S. Clever, a private, California-based company founded in 2012, claims to have served half of all U.S. Kahoot, it seems, is just heating up.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. can access digital learning in their classrooms (with 2 million to go). It’s the beginning of the end of the road for EducationSuperHighway.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

In Germany, there’s #OERcamp , a series of informal meetups for educators that’s been running since 2012. the Open Pedagogy Incubator at North Carolina State University brings together a cohort of instructors for a semester of learning about OER practices. In the U.S.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2023

Pivot, which  joined the Discovery Education family of services  in 2022, makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Loosely defined as affordable programs with strong learning and career outcomes, hybrid colleges often share three design principles: intensive wrap-around student support that directly meets student needs; digital learning programs (often competency-based); and sustainable funding that does not ask students to carry significant debt.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

million students earn credentials through more-flexible and affordable digital learning options. percent (totalling more than 1 million students) from 2012 to 2016. Jerry Brown called for spending $120 million to create the online institution within the 114-campus California Community College system. Previously, Gov.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Since 2012, workers with some college or higher education now make up the largest share of the U.S. America’s thirst for a highly-skilled workforce is driving the expansion of digital learning. civilian labor force. Seventy percent of online undergrads and 80 percent of online graduate students work full or part time.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

The funding requested by schools reached nearly $5 billion in 2012 and 2013, according to District Administration magazine. Meanwhile, Riverside used their $9 million E-rate subsidy to purchase mobile learning devices equipped with 4G data connectivity.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

It was the institutions that had existing digital education investments and strategies that were truly ahead of the game.

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APRIL 29, 2019

It led the Horizon Report, an annual attempt by a panel of experts to forecast educational trends, to predict in 2012 that gamification would be a major force in education within three years. An essay by Kevin Ashford-Rowe, vice-chancellor of digital learning at Queensland University of Technology, asked: Why is this technology so elusive?

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 11, 2014

“This is a landmark decision for our nation’s students and we commend Chairman Wheeler, Commissioner Clyburn, and Commissioner Rosenworcel for their steadfast commitment to connecting millions of America’s students to the promise of digital learning,” said Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperHighway.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Are you Prepared to Get Your #DLDay on and Seek new Approaches to Improving Learning Outcomes? “Started in 2012, Digital Learning Day has provided a powerful venue for education leaders to. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. This new option under the Verizon Innovative Learning program will provide hotspots to students who need access the most so that their learning never stops.”.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Digital Learning Day 2018. On Thursday, February 22nd, tens of thousands of educators and students across the country demonstrated how technology can improve student learning as part of the seventh annual national Digital Learning Day ! The post Digital Learning Day 2018 – Challenge Accepted!

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

What non-obvious advice about distributed practice do you have for educators, instructional designers, and digital learning tool developers? Using spacing to enhance diverse forms of learning: Review of recent research and implications for instruction. Kang earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in St.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

Founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors, Coursera was one of a trio of startups that spearheaded the hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for short. It offers access to Coursera’s online library to workforce development agencies that want to reskill recently unemployed workers.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Before we even got started, a team of us designed two Board Authority Authorized (BAA) courses for the school: Foundations of Inquiry and Digital Learning (digital literacy). Foundations of Inquiry 11 – BAA Course (2012). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course (2012).

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” FY 2012 $0. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). The Administration’s proposal for College- and Career- Ready Students also will promote the development of State capacity to support district efforts to use technology to improve instruction.” FY 2013 $0. FY 2014 $0. FY 2015 $0.

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JUNE 12, 2018

The Babson Survey Research Group, an organization that tracks online enrollment, notes that between 2012 and 2016 the percent of online enrollment in universities increased 17.2 We have all had some really bad teachers and courses, but we don’t sit there and act like all face to face learning is horrible because of it.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This wave of activity and spending by MOOC providers and universities gave me a feeling of deja vu: it reminded me of the 2012 MOOC hype. Last year, MOOC providers announced about 30 new online degrees. That is why I called the rise of online degrees the second wave of MOOC-hype and 2018, the year of MOOC-based degrees.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

In the conversation around digital learning, there’s a sobering statistic that often goes overlooked: 74. Others, like Learning Equality , have taken a different route. aims to make digital learning content available to students whether or not they have web access.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

By Kathleen Costanza Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2022

million from fall 2012 to fall 2020. As the graph below, prepared by the insightful edtech consultant Phil Hill, shows, enrollments—when counting fully online college students in the mix—fell 1.5 But excluding online students, the present downturn in higher ed enrollment plunged significantly more—to nearly 7.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. million in 2019 to 18.6 million students in 2021, a 5.1 percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

FutureLearn launched with a dozen university partners in 2012, the same year that other MOOC platform providers—namely Coursera, edX and Udacity—also launched and whose growth have somewhat overshadowed FutureLearn’s (at least here among U.S. audiences).

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

million from 2012 to 2019. Source: Mind Wires With the pandemic intensifying the decline, postsecondary education leaders have been anxiously watching the discouraging trend over many years; enrollment slipped by a million from 20.7

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. Without digital, higher ed would be in far worse shape than it is now,” he adds. Department of Education 2016 results, would have fallen by more than 1.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2020

Crash Course is the creation of brothers John and Hank Green, who started the YouTube channel in 2012. Called Study Hall , the new series will feature new episodes every Tuesday, starting with a course on writing composition. They had no formal training as teachers, and have developed a fast-paced and irreverent style.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

In fact, online learning classes have been a thing for a while now. Two of the most well-known e-learning platforms – edX and Coursera – were both launched back in 2012 and were gaining new students every year. Before Covid Online education wasn’t introduced during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Ruiz-Healy started GradGuru in 2012 as a nonprofit. “The idea that they could wait in line to see a counselor just wasn’t a reality,” she says. “So So we thought: ‘Why not use the power of mobile devices to push the right information to them at the right time?’”

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight.

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