Career & Technical Ed
blended learning
Personalized Learning
Next Generation Professional Training, Blending For-Me & For-Degree
Combining the benefits of anywhere, anytime interest-driven learning with standards-based learning is the design opportunity of our time. The explosion of anytime, anywhere learning is making new thought experiments possible. Even in professional education resulting in certification, it is possible to create pathways that are more active and work-based with more just-in-time learning rather than just-in-case learning.
EdTech
Portfolio Provider Pathbrite Lands Another $4 Million
Pathbrite, announced today that it has completed a $4 Million Series A2 financing round that extends the $2.5 Million Series A financing round announced in June 2012. That brings the total raised to $8 million. Pathbrite is the leading provider of portfolio services to K-12 and…
Innov8
EdTech 10: In Like A Lion
You know what they say – March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. While you’re waiting for that transition in your corner of the world, take a break from your basketball brackets and annual hunt for all the green things in your wardrobe to dive…
Personalized Learning
Reynoldsburg Schools Attracting Rave Reviews
Yesterday I visited the Reynoldsburg Schools in Columbus, Ohio and had a chance to see the great work being done in the schools that is drawing attention not only statewide but nationally. In this piece by the Columbus Dispatch the schools’ efforts at innovating around STEM and career and college readiness was highlighted with a visit from U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Deb Delisle to tour the innovative programs.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Disrupt, Incubate, Re-engineer
There were big verbs in the news this week, with lots of activity across the K-12 and Higher Ed space. This week’s EdTech 10 is all about disrupting, incubating, persevering, re-engineering, and shifting. Now, get to reading...
Personalized Learning
Every State Should Run A Next-Gen Learning Challenge
Last month, I ran a three part series about the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) outlining how they took on the turnaround challenge, leveraged higher education partnerships, and improved the performance and sustainability of school networks (as outlined in part one of this three-part series); illustrated how blended learning supports and extends experiential…
Personalized Learning
Students Thrive in Blended Math Program
by Jane Roberts, first appeared on Commercial Appel on 2/15 Early afternoon math class at Presbyterian Day School (Memphis) looks unusually like a think tank. Wifi work stations are scattered around a large room. Boys of all ages are working individually or in groups. Some are sprawled…
EdTech
Gates Foundation Launches Literacy Courseware Challenge
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be making grants of up $6 million to organizations that develop software that supports students in "mastering literacy skills for writing, writing to read, and writing to learn."
EdTech
Neuroscience Symposium
MIND Research Institute, the makers of ST Math are hosting a Neuroscience Symposium: The Neural Foundation for Learning Math in Los Angeles, Calif. on Wednesday, February 20th. ST Math is a visual based blended learning math program. Founder Matthew Peterson will lead the events of the day with a hands-on experience for the audience.
EdTech
Education Entrepreneurship and Reflections on LearnLaunch
Anthony Kim, Education Elements, keynoted the inaugural LearnLaunch event in Boston last week. He discussed blended learning and challenged edtech companies to show growth similar to other sectors.