eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

And while core course content is often housed on the district’s internal learning management system (LMS), the extracurricular content—advanced placement (AP), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), honors, homeschool, and blended learning content—must also be factored into the equation. Taking the DIY route. “At

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Students need to have an option to reply where they can briefly indicate why they were absent and, if they are in crisis, be automatically redirected to on-campus (ex: counselling center) and neighborhood assistance (immigration advocacy).

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 109

edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2023

Training teachers to adapt to a blended learning environment during COVID by becoming more adept at using Canvas, a learning management system (LMS) that gives students equitable access to the district’s instructional resources and assignments and promotes collaboration among teachers.

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Accessibility LMS Chromebook Digital Divide 94

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If a meaningful portion of the OER community continues its insistence that educational materials be zero-cost, and continues advocating for institution-wide, system-wide, or state-wide zero-cost policies, that zero-cost advocacy will exclude students from having access to the most powerful educational technology since the creation of the internet.

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Strategy OER Education Policies 133

Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This is a summary of a conversation I had with our school’s library media specialist (LMS) Kari Kabat. Investing in an LMS is essential. We have a full time LMS in both of our buildings which is an important first step. This is what I see as a part of an LMS’ role in a school.

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Libraries LMS Learning Technology 58

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In fact, for many faculty, simply using a hosted WordPress site or uploading a free PDF into their LMS is beyond their technical capability, available time, and institutional support. Here’s what that looks like: Let me further pause to acknowledge that yes, your campus already has an LMS, which is a platform.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

Studyo is a student-centered task management platform to help build student organization skills by combining a school’s true schedule with tasks from many sources whether entered by students or posted by teachers on a variety of platforms such as Google Classroom, Blackbaud’s onCampus, Canvas LMS, Schoology, and others.

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Schoology Advocacy LMS Strategy 55

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners. Ally is designed to integrate with a school district’s existing LMS and automatically runs class materials through an accessibility checklist that looks for common accessibility issues.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 75

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 90

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

A few years ago in Shelby, our teachers asked for something better -- not only in an online gradebook, but in a learning management system (LMS) that had SBG as its centerpiece. It is a "one stop shop" of LMS needs. For more information about the Scoring part of the Empower LMS, visit here.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

D2L EMERALD RELEASE ( www.D2L.com ) D2L launches its Emerald Release — the newest version of its Brightspace LMS — which provides a social, mobile-friendly teaching and learning experience for people around the world.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 73

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” All integrated cohesively within the LMS. ” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more.

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OER LMS Course Secondary 60

Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This is a summary of a conversation I had with our school’s library media specialist (LMS) Kari Kabat. Investing in an LMS is essential. We have a full time LMS in both of our buildings which is an important first step. This is what I see as a part of an LMS’ role in a school.

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Libraries LMS Learning Technology 28

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

This allows students to automatically access an MP3 version of content added by the instructor into the LMS. Upon completion of the course, students receive an “Advocacy Plan,” which outlines their strengths and challenges and makes recommendations to consider and is shared with their educators.

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Blackboard Epson Pearson STEM 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children. She is a regular blogger for Getting Smart, Defined Learning, Neo LMS and STEM Informer. Most of these students were classified on the autism spectrum but had complex profiles.

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Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. ” Via The Atlantic : “How ‘ Daycare ’ Became ‘ School ’ ” Via Edutechnica : “4th Annual LMS Data Update.” .” From the EdTech Researcher blog : “ Project Based Learning as Mindset.”

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Education MOOC Report Facebook 66

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” From Phil Hill : “Update on UC Davis LMS Fiasco: Finishing the term with two partial systems.” .” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education Coursera Microsoft Company 50

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. ” Edutechnica is giving away data about LMS usage for Australia, Canada, and the UK. Mindwires Consulting is selling their report on the European LMS market. ” by The Atlantic’s Melinda D.

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Education Report Android Libraries 40

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Up ’til now, the “personalized lesson” company has raised $3 million. FoxConn will acquire SMART for $4.50 a share, according to a press release from the smartboard maker. public schools.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 49

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. ” Because everyone’s just dying to interact with the LMS through their home surveillance device. ” VR , AI , etc.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Offering “modules” in an LMS is, apparently, newsworthy. “New study raises concerns about impact of automated social media advocacy on education coverage,” says Alexander Russo. . “When Social Media Assignments Increase Risks for Vulnerable Students” by Monica Bulger and Jade E.

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. If those two say “ the LMS market glacier is melting ,” it’s probably melting. (I’m The LMS, of course, needn’t be a permanent line item in schools’ budgets.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via Education Week : “Parent Advocacy Group Warns of Ed-Tech ‘Threats’ ” Via PC World : “Why Google plans to stop supporting your Chromebook after five years.” ” Edutechnica has new data on LMS trends , including installations and migrations. ” Via Fast Company : “How Musical.ly

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Education Khan Academy MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations? Doesn’t that seem small?

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. The LMS isn’t the only platform in education to be sure. Automated Essay Grading.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Blackboard Study on How Instructors Use the LMS.”

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Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“Preparing for the Post-LMS World ” by Jonathan Rees. ” Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum takes a close look at a new report from TNTP , the advocacy group formerly known as The New Teacher Project. “How Lego Came to Be the World’s Most Famous Brick,” according to Wired.

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Education MOOC Chegg Robotics 57