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8 Online Learning Trends that are Changing the Learning Landscape
Seeking access to more and better learning opportunities, a state official called and asked about next generation of K-12 online learning. We see eight trends--some emerging from k-12 providers, some from HigherEd--improving online learning.
2020 Vision: A History of the Future
Written in past tense, 2020 Vision: A History of the Future is 440 pages of time travel into a best case scenario of how the next five years could be transformational for global learning. Organized around 10 signpost developments, each of the well designed chapters includes a problem statement and a list of solutions, profiles of GSV investees and sector leaders.
Smart Review | Write Out Loud
Write Out Loud is a must-have for high school students preparing to write college essays. In Write Out Loud, Barash walks you through her storytelling course. The book is divided into four parts: Find, Shape, Perform, and More Tools for Your Journey.
5 Ways Learner Profiles Can Promote Competency-Based Education
Competency-based environments encourage ownership over learning and move students at their own pace and according to their own needs. Learner profiles can play an important role in facilitating competency-based learning. Here are five ways learner profiles promote competency-based learning
20 Ways Education Will Improve by 2020
It’s getting easier to learn anything anywhere. It’s getting easier to create learning environments that work better for teachers and students. Here are 20 ways that learning (K-20) will change over the next five (or 10) years.
Learner Profiles: The New Glue to Unbundled K-20
Whether a traditional school environment augmented by an after school program and online resources, or a full Education Savings Account program, learning is now an anywhere anytime multi-resource adventure. It should be facilitated by a learner profile.
Infographic | Empowering Principals with High-Quality Data
School principals need to be able to access and use high-quality data to make good decisions. That's why Data Quality Campaign produced this infographic to show what that actually looks like.
Puget Sound Districts Share Electronic Records to Personalize Learning
Seattle area districts are personalizing learning using sharing expanded electronic student records. Facilitated by the Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD), seven districts between Seattle and Tacoma won a $40 million Race to the Top Grant and fundamental to their work is what Data Quality Campaign calls data portability.
Micro-credentials for Personalized, Powerful Professional Learning
A new report from Digital Promise further explores the potential of micro-credentials for educators. Digital Promise released Making Professional Learning Count: Recognizing Educators’ Skills with Micro-credentials -- a report that shares the results of a survey of teachers on their views on professional development and micro-credentials.
Better College Essays? There’s a Platform for That
Story2 teaches students how to tell their stories out loud using the power of storytelling to write powerful essays in their own voice. Story2 is an online writing application that helps students “build a bridge” from what they’ve done already to what they want to do in the future.