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Ed Policy

What Digital Learning Grade Did Your State Earn?

Apr 28, 2015

DLN’s annual report evaluates state progress in advancing digital learning and high quality learning opportunities for all students. Report cards evaluate state legislative and policy efforts regarding learning systems, quality online instruction, course access, school models, data privacy and more.

EdTech

IMS Global to Build K-20 Badges with Mozilla

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 25, 2015

IMS Global Learning Consortium announced the launch of the IMS Digital Credentialing Initiative. The new initiative is aiming to further the adoption, integration and transferability of digital credentials, including badges, within institutions, schools, and corporations.

EdTech

11 Tips for a Top-Class Webinar

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 24, 2015

Virtual broadcast, online seminar, professional development opportunity. These are all ways to describe what we know as a webinar. Follow these 11 tips to help make sure your next webinar is engaging and impactful.

EdTech

EdTech 10: Spring Has Sprung

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 23, 2015

Whether it’s educators finally recognizing opportunities to blend instruction or the launch of new game-based learning programs this week’s top EdTech news stories focused on springing toward new beginnings.

EdTech

Encouraging Students To Prototype And Pay It Forward In Real-World Ways

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 17, 2015

By: Andrew Coy. With the Perpetual Innovation Fund from Digital Harbor Foundation, educators receive a 3D printer and training to use in their classrooms if they can produce a business plan for how they and the youth they teach can use a 3D printer to pay for itself.

EdTech

EdTech 10: Season’s In Full Swing

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 16, 2015

This week we recognized all-stars with the CODiEs and DILAs, dove deep into the future of assessment, and whether it was state policy, coding awareness, or new acquisitions, we arrived in spring with welcomed inspiration and hope for the year ahead.

EdTech

Post Merger Boundless Will Continue to Offer Open Content

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 11, 2015

After acquisition by Valore, Boundless will continue to provide open education resources to higher education students

Leadership

80 EdLeaders at the ASU+GSV Summit

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 10, 2015

A talented group of advocates, educators, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered in Scottsdale this week at the ASU+GSV Summit. Like many attendees we didn’t get to many sessions but we did meet a lot of people in the lobby.

EdTech

EdTech 10: Personalization As A Priority

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 9, 2015

This week as knowledge economy leaders gathered at ASU+GSV to move the needle in expanding opportunities, efforts in EdTech made real, new ways to personalize and enrich the learning experience.

EdTech

20 High Impact EdTech Enterprises at ASU+GSV

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 9, 2015

10 startups and 10 growth companies that appear to have big impact potential that were featured among the 300 presenting companies at the 2015 ASU+GSV Summit.

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From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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