ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

Lafayette College showed faculty how to make document cameras at home using cardboard and rubber bands. Undergraduates already seemed lukewarm toward virtual higher education; only about 20 percent took even one online course in the fall of 2018, the consulting firm Eduventures estimates. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based K-12 education content and technology provider, has finished its sale to Veritas Capital, an investing firm which markets itself as seeking to improve education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The screenshot showed that the links had been disabled, court documents say. Linkletter maintains he posted these links to illustrate Proctorio’s “lack of transparency” about how their algorithms work, according to court documents. The services are supposed to police cheating among students, but they have proven to be controversial.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

And they’re looking for that learning to not just come from traditional education sources but also from their employer.” Companies will ditch the classroom model in favor of a mobile education approach. “Half of U.S. During the panel, representatives from Sam’s Club, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Data will play a larger role.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But UCLA professors felt that the traditional math curriculum was uninspiring to students and that the classes offered few useful examples from actual biology, according to a presentation prepared by members of the university that EdSurge reviewed. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The majority of educational technology is designed for student use. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Purdue University, which has championed income-share agreements as an alternative to traditional student loans, is hitting the pause button on enrollments into its Back a Boiler program. A switch from ISA servicer Vemo Education to Launch Servicing, which won’t create new income-share agreements but will manage existing ones.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

This is one example of many in our paper that demonstrates how those with traditional power — leaders, researchers and solution developers — emerge from the Inclusive Innovation and adapt to support the leadership of teachers, students and families in the R&D process.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. According to video documentation in the study, U.S. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years. And that's how people learn math.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Specifically, researchers at Opportunity Insights found that relationships with higher-income students dramatically improved low-income students’ chances of upward mobility in adulthood, even more than traditional success metrics like school quality. Others are betting on adoption first outside of traditional systems.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Higher education may never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s true even for the most elite colleges. And some tried involving students in teaching in new ways, asking some to serve as peer advisors or to help with class-related technology. percent since last fall. That’s on top of a 6.5

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But when I looked over my classes after returning to in-person instruction, I had the sinking feeling that I had exchanged the traditional model of student instruction with individual seats in rows and columns for a replica with devices instead. Are we just educational luddites or has the edtech revolution fallen short of its promises ?

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education? The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. Then, over time, C3 gained momentum in all the right ways.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I DeVonté Trask, 11.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That idea of building a new university had fizzled, though, after Thiel concluded that colleges were too regulated to make the kind of changes he wanted within the traditional systems. So he had decided to try his subversive fellowship instead. I think that Americans have always had a really strong practical streak.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal. We need some shared narrative.”

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

One is that cultural norms and gender stereotypes have proven hard to shake, and are sometimes embedded into education systems that track children early on into traditional career paths. A second is structural systems that pose extra challenges for women, like the fact that protective gear that fits them tends to be harder to find.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

As a result, NOPS was eager to close smaller schools that they deemed to be underperforming, though it is precisely these smaller schools with innovative models that are needed to provide a positive experience for students and families that have felt under-supported by larger, traditional institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. One of Nesta’s inspirations is the iZone inside New York City’s Department of Education, where small groups of educators have test driven new products for 12 weeks.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This responsibility is sacred, transcending the expectations of a traditional occupation. It is my fervent belief that educators have a duty to advocate for the rights and dignity of all students, and that includes trans kids. Educate colleagues and cisgender students—or even yourself—about the transgender experience.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

She sees TikTok as the latest in a long tradition of professors using popular culture and youth culture to connect with students. “If She ended up inviting her daughter to collaborate on a research project with her about TikTok, to document the platform’s role in young people’s lives.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. I was raised above all else to not only revere education, but to literally show respect to educators and elders by being a dutiful, quiet, listening and obedient learner.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Help various sectors—K-12, higher education, employers, communities, government and industry—work together in making the shift. The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2025

They become living documents, he says. It's really hard right now to be someone of traditional college age; it's really hard for students to see the value of college in the ways that they've been told it's valuable, Gannon says. After class, he scans the question sheets so students can use them as study guides.

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