Blackboard acquires MyEdu to retool the LMS
Ask students what they remember from their learning management system (LMS) in college, and they’ll likely recall a clunky interface used to register for classes, download course PDFs…
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Want more women in tech? Fix misperceptions of computer science
Code.org’s Hadi Partovi recently wrote a blog post titled “The real reason there aren’t more women in tech,” says edSurge.
A Bill of Rights and principles for learning in the digital age
The internet has made it possible for anyone on the planet to be a student, a teacher, and a creative collaborator at virtually no cost, EdSurge reports.
How to move PD forward
The fact that there are plenty of companies touting video-based PD as more efficient, individualized, cheaper, and faster should not surprise anyone who has been in the education…
Esther Wojcicki: “American schools are becoming more like classic Chinese schools”
Hysteria. That is what I predict will be happening in education circles next year, EdSurge reports.
The 10 largest ed-tech funding rounds of 2013
According to market research firm CB Insights, venture capital investments in edtech companies during the first 6 months of 2013 ($481M) was down 26% from 2012 ($650M), EdSurge…
OPINION: So you use ed-tech, but are you an early adopter?
Early Adopters: There are usually one or two at every school and they are sometimes referred to as ‘power users’ - but they are more than that, EdSurge…
Do schools have the infrastructure to implement the Common Core?
How long can students stare at a frozen screen before their minds wander off? How long can they wait for a webpage to load during testing before losing…
OPINION: Learning to code isn’t enough
The 2020 Science report released in 2005 observed that science was changing in a subtle but fundamental way--from the use of computing to support scientific work, to integrating…
When ed-tech meets Montessori, kids rule ed-tech
Take a peek at Acton Academy and you may wonder if you’ve stepped into a mythical world where students are heroes, learning is a quest, and teachers are…