Archive: 2012
Infographic: How Does Digital Learning Contribute to Deeper Learning?
Getting Smart® today launched “How Digital Learning Contributes to Deeper Learning,” a white paper that examines how key aspects of personal digital learning – common standards, next-generation assessments, blended learning, and affordable devices – can provide deeper learning opportunities for students.
Getting Smart Connects Digital Learning & Deeper Learning In Latest White Paper
Getting Smart® today launches “How Digital Learning Contributes to Deeper Learning,” a white paper that examines how key aspects of personal digital learning - common standards, next-generation assessments, blended learning, and affordable devices - can provide deeper learning opportunities for students.
Smart Cities: Houston’s Low Tech Lift Off
"Houston, unlike other cities, is insanely entrepreneurial and optimistic. It incubates the hell out of new ideas," said nonprofit leader Rhetta Detrich. She would know; she helped build Education Pioneers national network. Lacking the provinciality of East Coast cities, "Houston exists because it was founded on the premise of outsiders bringing good ideas and industry."
How Augmented Reality Can Change Teaching
The technology behind Augmented Reality is taking a real-world view and enhancing it with computer-generated imagery. Whether this is done by using a computer monitor and camera or fitted goggles to imprint imagery in the lenses, augmenting in this manner has great possibilities for a variety of tasks.
4 Career Skills Needed to Weather Change In Education
Like almost all fields today, the education sector has grown more complex in recent decades and faces a daunting set of challenges. Administrators in K-12 education, for example, must contend with inadequate funding and an aging school infrastructure along with such perennial problems as drug and alcohol use and bullying among students.
What’s Next For Utah?
Parents for Choice in Education, in partnership with Digital Learning Now, hosted Utah's 1st Annual Digital Learning Summit on October 9, 2012 at Salt Lake District's Innovation High. Watch the closing discussion about "What's Next For Utah" with Robyn Bagley, John Bailey and Tom Vander Ark
4 Initiatives Building Off of the Innovation Momentum
In an increasingly digital age, a growing number of American families are turning to online educational options to help bring a 21st century education to their children. With important education initiatives on the ballot on November 6th, families across the country took to the streets knocking on doors and sending letters to friends, asking for their support for school choice. Their hard work did not go unnoticed as school choice initiatives passed in Georgia, Washington and California.
McKinsey Report on Edu to Employment: Useful Frame, Missing Innovation
McKinsey released a report called Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works. The six findings are rationale but fall short on the innovation front. The big sector wide solutions that the McKinsey team described will be beneficial when and where the occur. In the mean time, watch for organic solutions that emerge around new skills acquisition capabilities and marketing signaling strategies.
World Education University Disrupts the Cost of Higher Education
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were thetop megatrend of 2012. MOOCs made theshift from curiosity to employability. Antioch University is proving that it's getting easier to convert a MOOC experience into college credit. ACE is close behind, evaluating Coursera courses for credit. EdX and the Gates Foundation partnered this month to offer MOOCs at MassBay Community Colleges, proctored through Pearson VUE.
How a Poor Kid From Turkey Grew up to Create Anything Anywhere Learning
Udemy is the leading marketplace for anywhere anytime learning with 5000 courses and 400,000 students.