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EdTechnically
by eLearning Inside
Podcast by eLearning Inside
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McGraw-Hill Cengage Merger Faces Headwinds in the US and UK
On March 30, the uphill battle education publishers McGraw-Hill and Cengage have been fighting to complete a merger got a little steeper. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled that the companies’ proposal to sell off a number of their current holdings was not sufficient to...
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Researchers Link Working Memory to Online Learning Habits, a Step Forward in Personalized Learning
As edtech and eLearning technologies have gone from a novelty to commonplace in education systems around the world, their use has been plagued by a common question: do they work as effectively as traditional instruction? While the question is far too broad to be useful to anyone, a group of...
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Interpersonal Interaction Is Crucial for Instructional Continuity. But What Does that Mean?
As coronavirus-related school closures continue to effect education systems around the world, an increasing amount of educators are doing their best to keep their courses going online. In this effort, teachers have coalesced on Twitter around the hashtag #instructionalcontinuity. Many often hear...
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Coronavirus Has Arrived. Will an LMS Be Enough for Remote Learning?
In the early months of 2020, coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, surged in China and surrounding countries, leading to large-scale school closings. The virus has since spread around the world and has arrived in the U.S. On March 11, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic....
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Wiley Strikes Open Access Publishing Deal with UK Universities
The academic publisher and edtech provider Wiley announced an ambitious move in digital publishing on March 2. In collaboration with Jisc and U.K. universities, the company has agreed to a four-year deal that will allow researchers to publish their work online in Wiley journals with an open…
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Coronavirus: How Schools Are Using Technology to Learn on Lockdown
In the early weeks of 2020, coronavirus has spread around the world. As the death toll from the respiratory virus has surpassed 2,500, numerous regions and cities have restricted travel, discouraged public gatherings, or put lockdowns in place. While many have been forced to cancel their plans as…
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Instructure Failed to Gain Shareholder Support for a Private Equity Buyout. What Comes Next?
On February 13, Instructure shareholders were set to vote on the proposed private equity buyout deal with the firm Thoma Bravonews on February 13. But before the vote, news emerged that Instructure had failed to gather enough investor support to allow it to go through. The company postponed the...
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What Role Should Blended Learning Play During Crises? Insights from the #FeesMustFall Movement
In recent years, online and blended learning has been put to use frequently during periods when teaching face to face is impossible. eLearning has been used to maintain instruction during hurricanes, heavy snows, floods, and fires. Educators have even continued to teach with online and blended...
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Liberty University Invested Big in Private Data and Admissions Leads to Grow their Online Program
Liberty University is one of the biggest universities in the U.S., especially when it comes to private institutions and online enrollment. LU is an Evangelical Christian school, and sports Division I football and basketball teams. They also maintain confusing and even questionable statistics when...
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College Board Trends Report: Higher Education Still Pays
Few higher education forecasts—for students or schools—have been sunny lately. On the one hand, tuition and fees have risen sharply in the past thirty years. Total student loan debt reached $1.5 trillion in the third quarter of 2019. Colleges and universities, meanwhile, are facing drops in...
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edX Announces Stackable Undergraduate Credit Offering: MicroBachelors
On January 8, edX, the non-profit academic and professional training platform, announced a suite of courses that would allow online students to earn and accumulate transferable college credit. The new offering is known as MicroBachelors. The organization says MicroBachelors are intended primarily...
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Regulators Are Catching Up to Virtual Charter School Growth, But Fraud Persists
Virtual charter schools and blended programs have continued to grow in American secondary education. In the 2017-18 school year, just under 300,000 learners were enrolled in full-time remote programs, while 133,000 studied in a blended program. While the sector long enjoyed less oversight and...
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The 2020s: Nascent Technologies that Show Promise in Education
As the month, the year, and the decade come to a close, many have voice predictions about the year to come. The staff at eLearning Inside don’t pretend to own a crystal ball, let alone confidently make any predictions about the future. But over the course of our reporting, we have certainly...
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Education and EdTech in the 2010s: A Lost Decade or a Period of Progress?
In the final months of the current decade, U.S. students received two lackluster report cards. First in October, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP, the Nation’s Report Card) delivered 4th and 8th grade test results in math and reading. While scores went up or down by a few…
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Coursera for Business Announces 100% YoY Growth
Another MOOC provider has found the business training sector provides a more reliable customer base than academic students. On December 10, Coursera announced its enterprise training business has witnessed 100% year-over-year growth and now stands as the company’s largest customer share. In 2019,...
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What Happens to Teachers When Online Students Miss a Class?
Online tutoring—where instructors reach students via the internet, often using videoconferencing—has continued to grow in popularity. Some have begun to investigate how learners fare in this environment compared to traditional face-to-face classrooms. But fewer have looked into how teachers use…
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27% of Edtech Licenses Go Unused: LearnPlatform Report
Education technology is used widely in schools and districts across the U.S. Collectively, U.S. K-12 education spends more than $12 billion every year on edtech licenses. But on average, 27% of an edtech product’s licenses are never activated or used. That’s according to analysis from...
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Humanoid Robot Teachers Are Here
Automated, AI-powered software and applications already help learners around the world gain knowledge without the help of another human. In fewer cases, developers have deployed similar technology into hardware that can move, watch, listen, record, and interact. Humanoid robot teachers have been...
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Beyond 2020: How eLeaP Redesigned Its LMS for the Future of Workforce Development
While the large incumbent learning management systems serving higher education have the resources to frequently develop new features or even acquire other companies outright to add to their stack, everyone else has a series of tough decisions they need to make. eLeaP, an LMS developed by the...
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