Personalized Learning
What Online Students Want
Online learning. It's a popular buzzword in both higher education and K-12 institutions. Each year, more formal and informal learning opportunities germinate online. Globally, many public institutions believe that "online education is critical to their long term strategy" and the number of online learners is steadily increasing (Allen & Seaman, 2008, p.3).
EdTech
North Carolina Blocks Online Public Charter
Parents in the State of North Carolina want a new, online public charter school, North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA), that would expand school choice options and individualized instruction for students. The school received preliminary approval to operate under the Cabarrus County Board of Education. Yet, the North Carolina School Boards Association (NCSBA), State Board of Education (SBE) and 60 school districts are trying to block it. What went wrong?
EdTech
The Shadow Education System
With the launch of Skillshare, it seems likely that there is a shadow education system working in America. Who are the entrepreneurs running it? Michael Karnjanaprakorn, the CEO for Skillshare, is one.
Difference Making
How Can Cities Help Youth With the School-to-Work Transition?
By: Gabriel Sanchez Zinny. The skills gap is a widespread problem, but the solutions to it will likely be local, diverse, and community-driven. We need a better sense of how local policies are being implemented and received and best practices from cities.
Personalized Learning
Map And/In History
From National Geographic to the Library of Congress (to name just two among hundreds of examples), putting maps and mapping tools online has become One of the Things to Do for map-ish people.
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Host a BYOOER Party! (15 Steps for an OER Launch)
The only science textbooks that we have in our schools that do not list Pluto as a planet are the ones printed before 1930.
Personalized Learning
Buildings That Teach
10,000. That’s the number that appeared on Craig Schiller’s computer screen at the start of his presentation to a small group of parents and faculty at my daughter’s school this week.
EdTech
Desmos Unveils Tables of Data for Greater Math Understanding
Desmos unveils a sweeping new set of changes to its online graphing calculator to meet the requests and needs of its thousands of users over the last year. Today, Desmos introduces Tables of Data, which will improve students' abilities to organize data at the heart of statistic.
Personalized Learning
IX Reasons STEM Needs Title IX: Lessons From Center Court
By: Janine Ingram. It's time for girls in STEM to get a Title IV revolution. Here's 9 reasons why.