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Personalized Learning
Using Technology-Enhanced Items Effectively to Close Student Achievement Gaps
By: Aditya Agarkar. Why we expect assessments to become more varied, less mundane, and more interesting overall. The result: reduced achievement gaps and better learning outcomes.
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What if Students Made a School?
By: Tom Carroll. As new education models grow are we ready to ask students to help us customize the staff, space, curriculum, tools, and time they NEED for deeper learning?
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Always Learning: College Now & Later
A generation ago you went to school until you were 21 and then worked until you were 65; now employability is all about lifelong learning — for the next job, during the next job, and learning to do what you love.
EdTech
7 Trends That Shaped 2014; 7 Problems We’ll Solve in 2015
There were 7 trends that shaped US education in 2014. Continued progress in the new year will result in solutions to 7 challenges.
Learning Design
It’s Time to Invest in Learning Design
It is becoming increasingly possible to create powerful sequences of experience that boost engagement, promote transferability, and support impact. Powerful learning results from well considered learner experience design--an iterative process well worth investment.
EdTech
There’s an App for That: 5 Expectations of Mobile Learners
Improved broadband, inexpensive devices, mobile gaming, and ubiquitous computing are creating new learning opportunities and pushing learner expectations.
Personalized Learning
Entry Points Into Blended Learning Implementation
Often schools and districts start with using educational technology for students at the margins. But, one unique and emerging trend is world language learning as an entry point.
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Global Employment Markets Reward Competence & Initiative
The global economy is expanding opportunity for billions but participation demands competence and initiative. Online learning--both formal and informal-- is expanding access to knowledge and skill building.
Difference Making
5 Options Allow GenDIY to Rethink College
Finish high school, go to college, graduate four or five years later and go to work--only it doesn’t work that way very often for Millennials. The GenDIY hack on higher education is a series of solutions that boosts affordability, flexibility, and employability.
Personalized Learning
Next Gen Higher Ed: Blended, Personalized & Competency-based
New highered options are bringing fast, flexible solutions for adults balancing work and family obligations just in time as young adult unemployment remains high, but thoughts of going back to school to finish up a degree still daunting.