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She said that in fact states are starting to recognize the need for all students to have equal access to broadband while they are off campus. There is a growing movement around the country, she said, for districts to create innovative solutions like Wi-Fi on school buses and community partnerships to provide Wi-Fi hotspots that students can take home.

he Consortium for School Networking on Wednesday announced a new initiative in partnership with the online educator network edWeb.net designed to improve technology for rural school districts. The project, “Tech for Rural Districts,” will offer support for district leaders through a webinar series and a new online platform.

Topics will include broadband access, avenues to acquire technology funding, and community involvement. The webinars will be archived on the initiative’s online learning community, which launched today and is open to the public.

‘tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn’ is often attributed to US inventor and polymath, Benjamin Franklin

My mantra is ‘disrupt before being disrupted’. It’s time for today’s digital culture to spread into Business Schools, worldwide

In France, 42% of jobs are under threat of automation, according to the consulting firm Roland Berger (2015).The average projected job loss across OECD countries is 57%, according to a 2016 World Bank Development Report.

Coursera's on a growing streak. The number of new institutions of higher education to sign onto the free online course site has more than doubled, bringing the total count of colleges and universities participating to 33 from 16. Among the new schools participating: Berklee College of Music, Columbia University, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, and Wesleyan.

One new participant is the University of California Irvine, which has added seven courses and is already involved in a Coursera-like initiative run by the OpenCourseWare Consortium, but without the interactive components that Coursera provides. UCI also offers educational materials on iTunes U, YouTube, Connexions,

School districts design new classrooms that address current and future academic and technology needs.

Training courses, weekend intensives and pre-made video tutorials are all ways that schools can support their educators at a low cost. But most importantly, teachers need to feel supported from all areas, from administrators and colleagues to tech developers. If teachers feel as though they can make mistakes, then they will be more willing to try new things and use these failures to help refine digital learning.

New Tech Should Make a Teacher’s Life Easier When I think about teachers working together to share digital techniques and new apps, I think of the most powerful reasons we educators are pushing on into the digital frontier.

When it comes to the use of video in education, the over-riding theme — as we might expect — is more, more, more

58 percent of colleges are running flipped classes, up from 50 percent last year. Lecture capture has grown by five percentage points to 77 percent and webcasting has gone up by four percentage points to 51 percent over the same period.

In K-12, 87 percent of schools are using video in the classroom, compared to 86 percent in higher ed

Transformer les formations traditionnelles en e-learning «old school» continue de coûter cher ; les entreprises expérimentent : produire en interne ? Sous-traiter ? Entre l’un et l’autre de ces modes, les mouvements de balancier montrent que l’équilibre est difficile à trouver…

E-learning «old school» : ce qui prévaut encore largement dans  les entreprises

Durée : souvent encore 20 minutes et plus ; activités pédagogiques réduites

Aux Etats-Unis, retourner à l’université après quelques années d’expérience – notamment après un bachelor – est une pratique répandue. Mais les universités se heurtent à la concurrence des organismes privés de formation et des community c­olleges, qui dispensent un enseignement de ty­pe professionnel. Les formations à distance sont très développées : la plupart des universités en proposent un grand nombre.

En Asie, la formation continue se déroule le plus souvent inté­gralement au sein de l’entreprise, avec le concours de prestataires extérieurs. Quelques grands groupes acceptent cependant d’envoyer leurs futurs dirigeants ­suivre un MBA aux Etats-Unis.

There are several products in the technology-based proctoring solution marketplace, and the needs and environment of individual schools need to be taken into account when choosing a vendor. No technology-based proctoring solution fits every need, therefore it is imperative to have a set of alternative options established. Policy Establish recommended syllabus language for a technology-based proctoring solution to add clarity for instructors as well as students. Establish recommended usage guidelines for instructors for a technology-based proctoring solution to add clarity for instructors. Culture To change the conversation of academic integrity across campus, a technology-based solution must: Be identified and deployed in partnership with the campus community; they must have a voice in the decision-making process for new technology and policies. Be presented alongside best practices and authentic assessments and not as the single solution to ensure academic integrity. Be presented and recommended to instructors as one option, along with best practices and authentic assessments, to help ensure academic integrity. Funding Establish a funding model that allows for an enterprise deployment of a technology-based proctoring solution to ensure usage clarity for instructors as well as students.

Data analytics and adaptive technologies, while still emerging in K–12 education, could help educators overcome barriers and accelerate innovation, the report says.

Schools have been collecting student data for many years. However, the human process of sifting through mounds of data is tedious and inefficient. Data analytics has shifted this workload from educators to algorithms, freeing up time for teachers to support student needs and giving them more meaningful insights into what those need may be.

Similarly, adaptive technologies are able to monitor and adjust to student learning in the moment, catching and helping students when they exhibit a wobbly conceptual understanding of competencies and advancing them to more challenging content as soon as they have met learning objectives.

In spite of the notion that students could conceivably take online courses from an institution anywhere in the world, two-thirds stick close to home — choosing a college or university within 50 miles of where they live. In fact, 44 percent selected a school within 25 miles of their homes. And the share of students enrolling in a school more than 100 miles from home fell from 37 percent in 2014 to 15 percent in 2019.

An advantage of going local is that the institutions "have greater visibility among employers and others in the community,"

If there were any such being as a "typical" online student, according to the results, she would be female (making up six in 10 students), nearly 32 years old, employed full-time, likely single and childless. Also, she wouldn't be the first in her family to attend college and she would have transfer credits to apply to her degree.

Located in Parkville, Missouri, a Kansas City suburb of 5,500 residents, Park University has a main campus of about 2,000 students. However, with more than 40 campuses across the nation and students on more than 30 military bases, the vast majority of Park’s 16,290 students are distance and online learners,

t was designed to provide services to students and connect all those students across the country into one university,

With more than 400 available commands, students can use the university-specific feature to receive answers to frequently asked questions, information about school programs and events, as well as course schedules, grades and GPAs by linking a university ID to Alexa.

“The flip model of learning offers a considerable cost saving opportunity to learners as well as educational institutions. Many institutions are using LMS to facilitate the delivery of content to the users. Although end-users have to make substantial upfront investment in the required infrastructure such as adequate Internet bandwidth, the long-term benefits of flipped learning considerably outweigh that of traditional classroom teaching and training,”

Global flipped classroom market by product Software 54.89% Hardware 33.54% Services 11.56%

The global flipped classroom market by hardware was valued at USD 165.9 million in 2015. The hardware segment comprises devices such as document cameras and tablets that are required to create, capture, and access learning content. These devices are finding more acceptance in schools and colleges. Lecture capture is used to facilitate learning for both students and teachers and helps in recording and delivering lectures in multiple formats including text and video. Vendors are equipping hardware with advanced features for lecture capture such as high-resolution video and display to improve quality. The devices used to facilitate lecture recording include microphones, cameras, screen capture devices, desktop recorders, DVD players, electronic whiteboards, and videoconferencing devices.

In a blog post from 2013, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner wrote that unemployment is the result of a gap between the skills needed for a job and the skills people have, and he called for an overhaul of the education system. While not nearly as extreme as Weiner's vision for the future of American schools, Lynda.com provides a valuable service to help close that skills gap.