Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

The heads of the two companies knew each other, and last year MyBuddy started to build its own language-learning curriculum to add to its offerings. Edwin developed sophisticated adaptive learning technology for English as a foreign language,” says Crewkow. Like MyBuddy, both are based in San Francisco.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. Ruiz says the platform’s differentiation, adaptive learning, and teacher dashboard data combine to offer her students one key benefit: equity. Source: Levered.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2024

This agility allows teachers to adapt learning plans to individual student needs. Reducing time spent on generating reports meant educators could focus more on teaching and adapting learning plans to each student's unique situation. This has a [favorable] impact on actual students during their existing academic year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 billion in 2016, according to Goldman Sachs. Authess $2.2

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school. Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. The magnitude of the problem may be disheartening.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. as you continue to amplify formative learning with digital technology. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Collaboration.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Its K-8 adaptive learning and diagnostic product i-Ready is used by over 4 million students, and a 2016 study found that it was an exceptionally accurate predictor of student performance on Common Core Assessments in New York State.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

They are building individual and collective knowledge and skills of how to expand our implementation of personalized learning throughout the district. This work brings us closer and closer to recognizing student achievement through demonstrated competencies rather than more traditional methods of assessment.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As part of a long-term study on the school, a team of researchers at NYU, led by Richard Arum, decided to look at other metrics, including a performance-based test called the College and Work Readiness Assessment, which is designed to measure various problem solving and reasoning skills. When we talk about skill development, it takes time.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive. April 2016 study from SRI Education found that students in adaptive courses performed slightly better on assessments than those in a traditional lecture. A Word of Caution. How am I being sorted?’”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

From 2006 to 2016, the cost of textbooks increased by 88 percent, more than than nearly any other college student expense—including tuition and fees (63 percent) or on-campus housing (51 percent)—according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Around 200 companies applied for the five spots in the 2016 cohort. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER). We’re learning alongside these institutions.” Educators can customize courses and monitor student progress.

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iLearn Technology

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Sign up TODAY, Woot Math is totally free for the 2015-2016 school year! If you have better access to technology, and students can work independently on a device, the Adaptive Practice is the place to start. The visual examples and leading through problems is fantastic, it is truly an engaging process for students to learn with!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. But as some disappointed investors have learned last year, the actual market value and performance behind “unicorns” may be as illusory as their nickname. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. Second, more innovation Machine learning, adaptive learning and virtual reality Will be at the center of education technology.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer? For the entire text of this example lesson plan, click here to view as a Google Doc.).

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. 2016 Brightspace Awards for Excellence Winners.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

eSpark’s Theory of Learning is grounded in seven research-based elements – teaching practices or design elements – that are directly linked to student learning outcomes. 1: Differentiation Keeps Learning Accessible. . #1: 1: Differentiation Keeps Learning Accessible. 7: Student Explanation of Learning Aids Retention.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

In contrast, 21st-century learning is characterized by: Personalized and Adaptive Learning: Tailoring education to individual student needs, abilities, and interests. Project-Based and Experiential Learning: Engaging students in real-world projects and hands-on experiences that make learning relevant and exciting.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Utilizing New York-based Knewton’s adaptive learning platform, Pearson says it will update its digital curriculum, enVisionMATH2.0. curriculum will initially be introduced in grade 3-5 classrooms in fall of 2016, followed by expansions into other grades in 2017. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

In 2016, the company said it expects to report operating profits — before the costs of the restructuring effort — of between £580 million and £620 million. Ramping Up Online Programs. ” A Pearson official did not immediately say what this would mean for the company’s work in the state testing world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

At a conference where educators and entrepreneurs seemed enraptured by the possibility of personalized and adaptive learning technology, Mitra offered this warning: “The problem we have in our system is that we think we can tell the learner where to go.” an assessment system that looks for productivity over process and method.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CYPHER LEARNING NEO LMS ( www.cypherlearning.com ) CYPHER LEARNING announced the launch of the Windows app for its product NEO LMS. Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. exclusively through FuelEd.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Michele Dawson, Senior Director of Instructional Technology in Compton Unified School District, CA, and Kelly Urlacher, Senior Curriculum Designer at DreamBox Learning, had a conversation of essential approaches for supporting these students in “ Key Strategies to Making Access and Equity a Reality for ELL Students.”. Leadership 3.0

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

It looked at college courses that are using so-called “adaptive learning” software as an enhancement to blended courses. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before. Researchers looked at course grades, course completion and in some cases scores on common assessments across 14 colleges and 19,500 students.

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Outcomes Software Learning Study 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. The framework demands that schools be assessed “according to their performance on student satisfaction, retention and graduate employment, as well as through institutional submissions.” school departments employed 8.4

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” ” The company: Questar Assessment, Inc. ” Also from Hill : “Fall 2016 IPEDS Data: New Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. Read Mindstorms. There were many remembrances penned for Seymour this year.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” CSS pic.twitter.com/JYyabJDAS3 — Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) June 6, 2016. Heard there was an intruder in my sons school last night.wasn't so angry when I found out who it was @thereaIbanksy pic.twitter.com/pC8WTo7v83 — Rebecca Radford (@RebeccaRadford7) June 6, 2016. ” asks Edsurge. ” Hackers, man. .”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7 Do note all the stories this week that are intertwined with predicting and assessing people’s “moods” – that is, some sort of “social emotional” thingy. Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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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. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. Don’t do this.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 53

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The company behind the ACT on Wednesday announced plans for a Center for Equity in Learning, which will focus on helping underserved students succeed in college and the work force.” ” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. “Is Estonia the new Finland ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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