Education

Colleges Need to Build Digital Quads to Support Social Learning for Online Students

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The act of talking with others—having social debates and conversations—is key to human learning, and this “social learning” has now become an important tenet of teaching and learning. Yet we tend to overlook how ingrained social learning is in our institutions, especially in higher education—how purposefully college campuses are designed to maximize the accidental run-ins […]

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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

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Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. Now it is selling all the course content developed for those free courses to colleges that want to use the materials in their own campus programs. The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012

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Roger Cybersecure Catalyst accepting applications for training program

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Ryerson University’s Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst has announced that it is now accepting applications for its Accelerated Cybersecurity Training Program. The program is dedicated towards women, new Canadians and displaced workers. It’s a 20-week intensive program that aims to give people with diverse backgrounds skills to excel in the cybersecurity sector. It aims to help people

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The Incredible Benefits of Letting Students Drive Their Own Learning

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When my children were small, they loved the book “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” by Mo Willems. In the book, a persistent pigeon begs, with increasing intensity, to drive a bus. As he pleads, children reading along with the story are meant to say “No” over and over again, thus reinforcing the concept

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How Indian Tutoring App Provider Byju’s Got So Big

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The Indira Gandhi Stadium, India’s largest indoor arena with the capacity to seat about 20,000 people, played host to an event in 2013 much different than its usual lineup of concerts and badminton competitions. A packed crowd of students between country’s equivalent of sixth and 10th grades, sat for a math lesson from a 38-year-old

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Are the Kids Alright? A Check-Up on Our Nation’s Reading Health [Quiz]

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This quiz is part of the upcoming EdSurge guide, What Does Reading Well Look Like? Some worry that the written word is disappearing amid the many technological advancements of the information age—that scrolling and texting have replaced reading and writing. And of course, the fear among many is that younger generations suffer the greatest consequences

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How Do We Get More Girls Into STEM? Build Confidence (and Robots)

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Women make up half of the total U.S. college-educated workforce today but hold only a quarter of the science and engineering jobs. With careers of the future heavily concentrated in STEM fields, it’s unacceptable for women to be left out of the space. Not only do employers need to have the largest possible pool of

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Motion Capture and More: How Apple Is Revolutionizing Augmented Reality

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Augmented Reality (AR) has exploded in the past few years, mainly due to the easy access provided by our mobile devices. Digital images once reserved for high-cost headsets are now seen through the camera on our phones and tablets. And thanks to Pokemon Go and Snapchat filters, we’re finally witnessing the use of AR on

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5G for Education Is Finally Here. First Stop? Cleveland.

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The old building that houses Cleveland’s Entrepreneurship Prep Cliffs Campus, part of Breakthrough Schools, has sure come a long way since its days as an elevator factory. In addition to hosting a public K-8 charter school, the former factory was recently outfitted with augmented and virtual reality stations, 3D printers and interactive screens in preparation

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When Summative and Formative Assessment Markets Combine, Will Expectations Collide?

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What happens when the $1.3 billion state summative assessment market begins to merge with the growing $1.6 billion market for formative assessments? Investors and the education community are closely watching emerging models and how they could shape the markets for related instructional and intervention materials. A critical indicator is the handful of states trying to

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