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5 School Technologies To Watch: Personalized Learning Is Here

5 School Technologies To Watch: Personalized Learning Is Here
Forbes
Vendor collaboration and cross-platform integration is important for education and will continue to be a big trend for two main reasons. First, vendors all share a common goal, to improve the learning lives of students and teachers through the digital ...

Clever Raises $3M SV Angel, Google Ventures, Educators, and More: "The startup doesn’t charge the schools anything to implement this solution. Instead, the partners that it works with pays Clever to integrate with the school. It has partnered with over 40 of the leading companies in K-12 education, including DreamBox, Scientific Learning, and MasteryConnect. All data collected by the service and transmitted between the school’s SIS database and the partners is secure and well-protected, according to Bosmeny."

New Books Highlight Lessons Learned from K-12 Online and Blended Learning
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Association for K-12Online Learning (iNACOL) released two new books showcasing the latest research and trends inonline school teacher mentoring and blended education ... several ...

Learning for free online
The Guardian
This is important because the availability of higher bandwidths and progress in developing effective systems of online assessment, combined with increasing demand, means that paid-for distance learning is also booming. According to the Higher Education ...

The Guardian

E-Learning Opens Real-World Doors
Education Week News
Melissa Gorman, a special education teacher at the Academy for Design and Construction at Union High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., works with Delvonte Jackson-Stewart, an 11th grader, in his blended learning class. ... "A charter gets into many ...

Education Week News

Digital learning 'accelerating' at University of Virginia
Virtual College
The institution has begun rolling out massive open online courses (MOOCs), following in the footsteps of many other US higher education facilities, the Daily Progress reports. According to Siva Vaidhyanathan, chair of UVa's department for ... UVa ...

The online learning revolution...
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Do we have enough world-class business schools and business academics? How would the online learning revolution help business education in Australia? What are its dangers? Would you prefer online education to the face-to-face variety, if it costs much ...

Sydney Morning Herald (blog)

NBC LEARN to Bring Learning Resources to Missouri Schools
Broadway World
NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, announced today a partnership with Missouri-based, k12itc, that will make its digital learning resources available to K-12 schools across Missouri. This innovative collaboration provides fee-based ...

Calif. District's Blended Initiative Aims to Personalize Learning
Education Week News
Although this is the school's first official foray into blended learning on a large scale, it has used blended techniques for some of its online classes since its inception. For instance, all onlinescience and physical education classes require ...

Minnesota backpedals from online education ban
Register
Last week, El Reg reported that online education startup Coursera was forced to add a clause to its terms of service forbidding Minnesotans from taking its courses, after that state's Office of HigherEducation warned it that Coursera's activities ...

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