EdTech
Education Technology is a multi-billion dollar sector of companies innovating in both software and hardware for teaching, learning, and running schools, districts, and state and federal education departments. We document some of the most essential technical innovations and companies that support learning, teaching and more.
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Review: Change.edu
Not too much sparks the fury of the education status quo today than the privatization of education and specifically for profit colleges. Forgotten is the original mission of higher education from its origins at the start of our country: to deliver a practical, useful education. Would our founding fathers be embarrassed at the frivolities of the social programs and free form curriculum offered at many colleges and universities without any thought or reason to the useless degrees and unimaginable college debt accumulated to obtain those degrees?
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McGraw-Hill Announces Joint Venture with New Oriental
At the close of the New York Stock Exchange today, McGraw-Hill announced a joint venture with New Oriental Education & Technology Group. The venture, from two of the world's leaders in education services, will provide access to after-school programs focused on 21st Century skills to students in China.
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Q&A: K12 Discusses the Challenges & Benefits of Blended Learning
K12, Inc., a K-12 online learning provider delivers a 1:1 education approach with individualized instruction for every student. The online school currently has a 95 percent satisfaction rating in its delivery of fully online schools and courses. Today, Darren Reed, the Vice President of Blended Schools at K12, has given us some insights into online and blended learning.
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Michael Crow Remarks on University Design
Michael Crow, the president at Arizona State University, remarks on current and future university design across the country at the Future of State Universities Conference this October in Dallas, Texas. Crow argues that we need to design universities that are widely accessible to everyone, highly focused on problem solving for a more competitive economy and especially supportive of the children of the working class. He says that most public universities today would be unwilling to take on this model because it's too complex and tough to implement.
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Top 10 Impactful Education White Papers & Reports
Check out these 10 impactful white papers and reports on the ways that education will shift in the future: A Natural Primer On K-12 Online Learning, Version 2 Blended Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-to-Face Education Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning The Online Learning…
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Webinar: The Promise & Potential of Personal Digital Learning
Tom Vander Ark presented innovative ideas for blended learning Friday for 700 schools nationwide during the webinar "The Promise and Potential of Personal Digital Learning," which was hosted by Sevenstar Academy.
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Fixing Education: Fareed Zakaria’s CNN Special Report
CNN's Fareed Zakaria focused on education during his Sunday morning show GPS and had a prime time special with expanded coverage. The prime time show kicked off with a video review of South Korea's pressure-cooker test-driven system. Fareed contrasted the Korean system with Finland's lack of testing and focus on great teachers. Fareed interviewed Bill Gates who discussed the foundations focus on teacher effectiveness. The morning show (CNN's FAREED ZAKARIA GPS) and the evening special featured an interview with Secretary Arne Duncan.
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OERu: Open Content to Expand College Access
OERu seeks to create new affordable learning pathways for low income adults worldwide based on open education resources (OER). Sponsored by the OER Foundation and Hewlett Foundation, the work is advanced by 13 partner institutions including Empire State, SUNY.
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PLATO Learning Introduces vCourses
PLATO Learning, an online provider K-20 learners, announced today the launch of vCourses, research-based courses, optimized for virtual programs and designed to improve learning in the 21st century.
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Review: Make Just One Change
In many classrooms today, students are asked to take in knowledge and information and answer assessment questions on it later. This is normal practice. Yet, how often - early on - do we ask students to formulate their own questions to target the how and why of subjects in the classroom? While teaching how to ask questions appears to be an obvious learning technique, it's one that could use more attention.