Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While vendors and e-learning service providers promote microlearning as an off-the-shelf solution to be used like a genie’s lamp to solve all the learning and development issues in your organization, they fail to understand that microlearning is not a technological solution—it is a learning strategy. Would anyone understand it?

LMS 171

LMS E-rate Training Survey 171

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When young children enter a virtual world of play, they’re most likely using apps on phones or tablets, according to a recent Common Sense Media analysis. The rating system includes markers for content appropriateness on games. That status quo may shift if CoComelon: Play with JJ is successful. “I

Video 162

Video E-rate Mobility Tablets 162

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”. But it logged growth starting in the 2013-14 school year, two years before the school introduced Edgenuity.

Company 145

Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One of the biggest indicators of a successful program is intentional technology use. Whether creating digital resources and activities or planning a large purchase of student devices, the technology should support the learning, not the other way around. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

Blended Learning 117

Blended Learning Pearson Learning E-rate 117

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.

E-rate 73

E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 73

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Young people think the burden is too heavy for them to have a child, so the birth rate is declining very, very fast.” The country’s tutoring companies are worth about $120 billion, according to analysis from Reuters. One is marketing technology directly to the country’s enormous public school market. What are the implications?”

EdTech 148

EdTech Company Industry E-rate 148