Archive for the ‘K-12’ Category

Moodle Mobile 3.5 Is Out: Check Out A Brand New Look, Navigation Enhancements And Advanced Admin Control

On June 25th, just a tad late, Moodle Mobile 3.5 was released. New features, from GDPR compliance to visual layout and responsiveness enhancements; 7 critical bugs fixed and dozens of issues addressed make the latest upgrade Moodle’s most ambitious mobile play yet. On the app stores for Android and iOS, the app will no longer […]

ISTE launches online professional learning hub for educators

The hub, called “ISTE U,” will train teachers on technology topics like artificial intelligence, mobile learning and open educational resources. edscoop

How Do Diverse Classes Fare with Video-Based Active Learning?

Classroom environments that use digital tools and active learning get a lot of attention these days. But discussion tends to lack nuance. An educator might implement a new pedagogy and measure learning outcomes, grades, engagement, or some other ‘across-the-board’ metric. But how does video-based active learning work for students from different socioeconomic backgrounds? With different […]

National Standards for Quality Online Teaching (K-12) Literature Review

This literature review has been conducted to inform the work of the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching revisions, a project led by a partnership between Quality Matters and the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance. It includes a short summary of the relevant peer-reviewed literature followed by an alphabetical listing of the resources correlated to the […]

Seminole County Public Schools Partner With Portfolium on ePortfolios And Digital Badges

SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS) has selected Portfolium to provide it’s ePortfolio platform to 67,000+ students in an effort to support secondary school student success, as well as a digital badging initiative directed at assessing faculty development among it’s 4,500+ educators. Market Insider

Intent-Based Networking’s Next Evolution: The DNA Center Platform

For more than 20 years, organizations have been running their networks pretty much the same way. But recently, that way has become increasingly difficult, fragmented, and expensive. Modern networks need to be both more integrated, and yet more flexible. CISCO 

From Chatroom to Classroom: The Evolution of Blockchain Education

With the creation of Bitcoin and its blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced an entirely new practical application for cryptography, unearthing an unexplored area for computer science and technological development. In the years following the technology’s inception, community demand for instructional information and educational materials began to rise. Soon after Nakamoto bootstrapped the network, coders would look […]

12 Steps Toward Immersive Learning

Learn by being there. It is this sense of presence that powers the promise of immersive learning. That promise-to enhance the acquisition of new knowledge and improve its far transfer-is supported by theory [1, 2]. Research into situated learning reveals the value of coherent frameworks that faclitate exploration and experimental problem solving [3]. Immersive learning […]

Download Report:

Full-Time Virtual and Blended Schools: Enrollment, Student Characteristics and Performance This sixth NEPC Annual Report on Virtual Education provides a detailed overview and inventory of full-time virtual schools and blended learning, or hybrid, schools. Full-time virtual schools deliver all curriculum and instruction via the Internet and electronic communication, usually asynchronously with students at home and […]

The Condition of Education 2018

This website contains key indicators on the condition of education in the United States at all levels, from prekindergarten through postsecondary, as well as labor force outcomes and international comparisons. The indicators summarize important developments and trends using the latest statistics, which are updated throughout the year as new data become available. In addition, this […]