Personalized Learning
The State of Storytelling
By: Monica Brady-Myerov. One of the constant challenges teachers face is to get and keep their students’ attention. What's a simple answer? Tell a good story.
EdTech
Q&A: Jeff Mao Shares the Inside Scoop on Maine’s 1:1 Program
Jeff Mao, the Learning Technology Policy Director of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) at the Maine Department of Education, joins us today to chat about the ways that Maine forged the path of 1:1 learning with the first and only statewide 1:1 laptop program. He tells us more about the challenges the state faced, the ways the program has benefits students and educators, and how the program is evolving to adapt to the needs of the future.
Personalized Learning
Sage Advice From a HigherEd Veteran: Getting a Head Start on Finding the Right College
By: Richard Ferguson. Parents, teachers and students themselves will find this list by Richard Ferguson, former CEO of ACT, about the importance of finding the right fit for college.
Personalized Learning
Most Likely to Succeed Concludes a 50 State Tour
Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith is concluding his 50 State Tour for the film Most Likely to Succeed with stops in West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
EdTech
How Can Data Increase College Access for All?
What is particularly powerful about the Datapalooza, and indeed the overall approach of the current administration towards open data and innovation, is that it sets audacious goals while fostering an environment for entrepreneurial solutions that together provides the tools to achieve them.
EdTech
Udemy Raises $12 Million in Series B Funding
Udemy, the leading online education marketplace, today announced the completion of a $12 million Series B financing round led by Insight Venture Partners, with additional support from existing investors Lightbank, MHS Capital and Learn Capital, bringing Udemy’s total funding to $16 million.
Personalized Learning
Ready For The World: Redefining Success In The Age Of Change
By: Antonia Slagle. As part of our Smart Parents series, Antonia writes about her son's own educational experiences and how her son's high school allowed him to have personalized learning opportunities including important internship experiences and mentors.
Personalized Learning
Personalized Instruction: The Key to Academic and Career Success
Everyone likes to talk about personalized learning that is focused on a student’s goals, but how do you expose kids to these things when their worlds don’t allow them to understand what opportunities are available to them? Noemi Y. Perez explores.
Project-Based Learning
HQPBL Case Study: Liceo Pablo Neruda
In a number of locations across Chile, several organizations and schools have embraced PBL—and officials in the country’s Ministry of Education are gearing up to implement capstone project experiences in the last two years of high school.
Personalized Learning
#TCEA | UnConferencing Professional Learning Conferences
Increasingly education conference attendees are getting a say in the time, place, path and pace of their learning. As these educators change the way they receive information, conferences must become more dynamic in the way they deliver learning opportunities.