3 Big EdTech Deals Of The Week (May 28, 2020)
Top Hat, the leading active learning platform for higher education, announced it is acquiring more than 400 higher education textbook titles published by Nelson, Canada’s largest educational publisher. Top...
10 best MasterClass Courses That Make The Most Of Your Free Time
Getting one-on-one lessons from legends like Anna Wintour or RuPaul seems like a fever dream—or, at the very least, something that only happens to people who have millions of...
What Gives Video Games The Edge Over Video For Distance Learning?
Ki Karou is the director of product for ST Math content at MIND Research Institute. Ki previously served as a game and learning designer. Before joining MIND, he founded...
Six Stories of Six Weeks of Online Education
Spring 2020 was a semester like no other. Over the course of a few weeks, thousands of classes – lectures and seminars, laboratory and performance courses, capstone projects and...
Five Ways Online Learning Can Be Better Than In-Person Learning
The University of Cambridge has announced that all lectures will be offered online for the academic year beginning in October 2020. Other UK universities are expected to adopt similar...
AT&T Awards 8 Distance Learning and 5G Startups in its 2020 Aspire Accelerator Class
Companies in this year’s Aspire Accelerator class are focused on everything from building applications to help students develop social-emotional skills, to teaching science through online gaming, to increasing engagement...
The Harsh Questions We Must Start Asking in Education
Elliott Levine is Chief Academic Officer for STS Education, a national educational technology services firm, and Chief Product Officer for Healthy Player ONE, software to combat harassment and injuries in esports....
Remote Learning Brings Attention to the Usefulness of the Long Lecture
With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options, educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to...
Indonesia EdTech And COVID-19
Desperate to find a silver lining in the COVID-19 madness? Take a look at this recent report posted by the World Bank about edtech efforts in Indonesia. According to...
Digital Divide Worsens During COVID Crisis
LearnPlatform released this week The Exponential Growth of the Digital Divide – a new analysis of student and teacher use of K-12 edtech tools across a cross-section of U.S. school...
Top 5 Disruptive EdTech Trends of 2020
Like all other industries, technological revolutions will disrupt the education sector too in 2020 and the upcoming years. Before moving ahead to the trends, let's talk about the technologies...
How COVID-19 Will Force Education Into The Future
This post originally appeared on the ASCD website. Sean Slade is the Senior Director of Global Outreach at ASCD, focusing on promoting and expanding the ASCD Whole Child approach...
Yale’s Most Popular Class Is Now Available Free Online
In the spring of 2018, the Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos unveiled a new course, Psychology and the Good Life. The subject was happiness. Santos's course was a blend of...
Winners of the 2020 CODiE Education Technology Awards Announced
Scroll below for details. Or if you want the suspense and a peek inside the homes of some edtech luminaries, follow along for the quarantined presentations. Best Administrative Solution Abre,...
The Changing Market for Postsecondary Education
We know all too well that the current virus pandemic is impacting enrollments in the near term, but this is temporary -- the pandemic will pass. It will take...
Laredo College Offering Free Online Small Business Courses
Free, online courses are being offered by Laredo College that include subjects like Creating Web Pages, WordPress Websites, Supervision and Management and more. “These courses offer in-depth specializations that help...
How Workplace Learning Must Adapt To Meet The COVID-19 Challenge
Sam Herring is the Vice President and General Manager, Intrepid by VitalSource. His post originally appeared March 5 here. Herring will appear on an upcoming episode of Remote Possibilities...
Special Ed Services Amidst COVID—How One District Does It
Ukiah Unified School District in California is no stranger to extended school closings. In the last three years, it has experienced closings due to wildfires, smoke from a nearby...
The Evolution of Classroom Tech, From VCR Carts to Interactive Displays
Educational technology is not a new concept. Whether in a small classroom or a vast lecture theatre, the role of audiovisual technology has played an important, if not always...
Big Deals For Edtech This Week (May 15)
As the pandemic lockdowns continue, the prospects for physical summer camps are grim and fall back-to-school re-openings murky. To compensate, curriculum providers and online schools are scrambling to create...
4 Budget-Friendly Ways To Upskill Your Newly Remote Workforce
As entire organizations and teams are disbanded and forced into the digital revolution, many are left vulnerable due to the widening skills gap plaguing the workforce. The skills gap...
Teacher Support Critical To Remote Learning Success
A broad gap exists between what the public wants and what they believe schools are able to provide, according to the latest survey conducted by Langer Research of New...
What Universities Are Learning From Online Education
Six months ago, few of the world’s academics had taught an online class. Now they’re almost all doing it. I asked dozens of them about their experiences. My conclusion:...
Microsoft Education Details Remote Learning Successes And Goals
Industry behemoth Microsoft Education this week began to document how the company is responding to the global pandemic and offers resources for institutions to move forward. Alexa Joyce, Future-Ready...
Google Meet Premium Features for G-Suite Now Free Through September
Last month, Google for Education announced that they’ve extended access to premium Google Meet features for all G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education users until Sept. 30,...