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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form.

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New Higher-Ed ‘Matchmaking’ Event Aims to Bridge Education Technology Silos

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But they argue that their new effort, called the Empirical Educator Project, will serve a convening and support role not done by those other groups or foundations. Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.” We still have tribes,” he said.

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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

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The technology belonged to ClassLink , a Clifton, NJ-based provider of web- and cloud-based educational products and services as well as the company’s namesake SSO platform. We're looking at artificial machine learning analytics around security and digging deeper into ClassLink’s reporting features.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

DECODING DIGITAL LITERACY: Ask 450 educators to define “digital literacy,” and you’ll likely get dozens of answers. DECIPHERING ‘DATA’: Yaschin also offered this analogy for how educators can think of Big Data: “There are descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS?

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

Edsurge

Small companies like Acrobatiq, OpenStax and Smart Sparrow—the platform behind HabWorlds—and edtech veterans including Pearson and McGraw-Hill are racing to to develop complete courses that faculty can implement immediately. The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive.

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. What is personalized learning? Eastwood, the district’s superintendent.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. What is personalized learning? Eastwood, the district’s superintendent.