PODCAST · education
eLearning, EdTech, Talent Development
by eLearningInside
Podcast by eLearningInside
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It Isn't Easy Handling Instructional Design for Digital Learning
Teachers today have access to technology and instructional tools that were mostly absent from classrooms just a few years ago. While well-versed in pedagogy and learning modalities, many may not be so familiar with some media that has recently begun to revolutionize digital learning. Third party...
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Trilogy Education Continues to Expand With Two New Acquisitions
In the competitive coding bootcamp market, Trilogy has emerged as one private academy that seems likely to persist over time, even as many competitors stumble. In May 2018, Trilogy announced that it had secured $50 million in a Series B funding round to fuel expansion of its platform and global...
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Judge's Verdict Halts New Mexico Connections Academy Closure
Despite growing concerns about the performance of online charter schools, this week, a New Mexico state judge granted one troubled online school the green light to keep operating. The trouble started earlier this year when the New Mexico Public Education Department ordered New Mexico Connections...
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Purdue AAUP Puts Heightened Pressure on Purdue Global
On October 4, Purdue University’s local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is the association that represents Purdue University’s faculty, issued a strongly stated resolution calling on Purdue Global to address multiple labor violations. So far, Purdue...
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It's Time to Change the Way Teachers Grade: Study
For years, student grades have been formed exclusively through how learners perform on certain assignments and criteria. In some subjects, like math, a student’s abilities may be very apparent. They will either be able to answer a given problem correctly or they will not. But in other areas, it’s...
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Is an Increase in State Funding the Solution to Lower Tuition in Higher Ed?
Almost fortnightly, it seems, a report or article emerges about the increase in tuition at American institutions of higher education. Some describe what caused the hikes, and what policies can be adopted to reverse the trend. Many of these reports tend to land on the same conclusion: state...
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Social Hackers Academy Retrains Migrants in Greece for Work in the Tech Industry
Last year, eLearning Inside connected with Social Hackers Academy, an NGO based in Athens, Greece that provides a coding bootcamp for migrants, asylum-seekers, and out-of-work individuals to train for jobs in the tech industry. Since we last spoke, the group has trained 22 junior developers and…
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Portfolium Is Helping Princeton Students Connect Beyond the Classroom
As a freshman, arriving on a large university campus is always intimidating. While a few U.S. high schools have over 4,000 students (for example, Brooklyn Tech in New York City), according to the National Center for Educational Statistics, most U.S. high schools have under 1,000 students. This is...
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Chinese Edtech Has No Reluctance with AI
Throughout the past year, Chinese tech startups have received encouragement via policy and financial support from their government in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) across sectors. Numerous Chinese edtech companies have recently announced successful development and…
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Meritize, Which Provides Merit-Based Education Loans, Raises $13.2 in Series A
Securing funding for further education can be exceptionally difficult for learners with poor credit. What loans are available will typically carry a high interest rate. That marks a catch-22 for individuals hoping to advance their socioeconomic status with further education. The company Meritize...
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ASU's Weaponized Narrative Initiative Teams Up with Truepic to Fight Fake News
During the past two presidential administrations, internet trolls have manipulated images of George Bush and Barack Obama talking on the phone to make it appear the device was upside-down. These would be some of the lighter instances of what a group at Arizona State University (ASU) calls...
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Ohio Parents Continue to Choose Virtual Charters Despite Further Scandal and Poor Performance
Despite recent scandals and school closings, Ohio parents continue to choose virtual charters for their kids. Over the weekend, the Dayton Daily News reported that Great River Connections Academy, the first virtual charter to open in the state in five years, began the current school year with an...
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LinkedIn Publishes Most In-Demand Skills for 2019
Many professionals take the New Year as an opportunity to resolve to learn something new. January marks the most popular month for numerous online learning sites and platforms. But what to learn? And how can you leverage that education in the marketplace? LinkedIn might be a good place to start.…
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Bridging the Digital Divide Among Schools Is Within Reach Despite FCC Red Tape
On Tuesday, the State of the States Report, which tracks school connectivity issues, along with EducationSuperHighway, released their annual report. The bad news is that the digital divide still separates 2.3 million American students from access to broadband internet. The good news is that 1.9...
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Harvard Extension School and MIT Launch New MicroMasters Collaboration
On October 1, the Harvard Extension School (HES) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a collaboration that will offer learners a chance to pursue a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) degree at Harvard Extension School after completing a MITx MicroMasters credential. The new program...
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OU and FutureLearn Seek Funding to Expand Online Course and MOOC Offerings
The Open University, currently the U.K.’s largest institution of higher education, is making a play to capture a bigger slice of the online distance learning pie. As reported by the Financial Times, the public university has hired IBIS Capital with the goal of raising £40 million (with an...
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Personalized Learning Is Now In Effect Throughout Vermont Secondary Education.
In 2013, a group of educators from around the state of Vermont gathered for a series of workshops and meetings. The work at these gatherings was used to create new guiding legislation for schools in the Green Mountain State centered around personalized learning. Act 77 includes language that many...
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Distance Education Continues to Increase Nationwide
In an age of online education, eLearning, mLearning, and virtual education, most people no longer used the term “distance education.” After all, when most people think about term, what comes to mind is a bulky stack of photocopied articles arriving in the mail. Nevertheless, the Online Learning...
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Is Udacity in Trouble?
On September 28, TechCrunch reported that Udacity has cut 5% of its staff globally since August. The startup, which was once best known for offering MOOCs but is now primarily known for offering its trademarked Nanodegrees, is worth an estimated $1 billion. What remains unclear is why Udacity is...
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LAIX, Chinese Developer of the Liulishuo AI-Powered Online Tutor, Takes in $71.9 Million with IPO
LAIX Inc, the company that developed the English learning app Liulishuo, is hoping to disrupt the English language teaching and tutoring market with AI software intended to replace human instructors. Traders and investors see a good deal of promise in that model. Last Thursday, the company raised...
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Badiri E-Academy Has a Mandate to Support Women's Professional Advancement
In late September, the United Arab Emirates-based Sharjah’s NAMA Women Advancement Establishment launched a new series of MOOCs with a mandate to empower women and promote life-long learning. The MOOCs will be offered by Badiri E-Academy, NAMA’s education.
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Student Loan Default Rates Continue to Rise Among For-Profit Graduates
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education put out a curious press release. The headline read “National Student Loan Cohort Default Rate Falls.” In other words, graduates who took out federal loans to pay for college are defaulting—as a group—at lower rates than previous years.
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Poll Finds School Choice Is Popular, Public Districts Are Most Popular Choice
While American families remain seriously divided over where they choose to to send their kids to school, their ability to make that choice is a popular issue. That’s the conclusion of a recent poll from the Hornstein Center for Policy, Polling and Analysis at Long Island University. The study...
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Case Study Demonstrates Classroom Use of Empowered Brain, A Google Glass-Based ASD Intervention Aid
The Empowered Brain, a suite of apps for Google Glass intended to aid and intervene in educating learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), continues to be tested in the classroom. Earlier this month, a team of researchers led by the Empowered Brain founder Ned Sahin published a case study of...
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Penn Medicine Holds Virtual Classes for Transplant Candidates
The University of Pennsylvania has already made it into headlines once this month with the announcement of an online Bachelor’s degree offering. Last week, however, a blog post described a very different eLearning initiative. Penn Medicine runs one of the preeminent medical programs in the U.S....
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Experts Suggest Federal State-Partnerships to Protect Against the Next Recession
On Wednesday, The Century Foundation convened their event Higher Ed 2020: College Affordability Ideas for the Next Generation and Beyond at New York University. The opening panel brought together a series of experts who easily reached a general consensus on how to solve issues of sky-high college...
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EdTech in 2019: Experts and Founders Around the World Share Predictions (Part 2)
Over the past year, eLearning Inside has interviewed dozens of founders, investors, and researchers in the edtech sector. As we look forward to 2019, we decided to reach out to some of the people we talked to in 2018 along with a few new voices to gather predictions on edtech for the coming year....
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According to Coursera’s CEO, These Are the Skills We Need to Succeed in 2019
If you’re contemplating your New Year’s resolutions and don’t want to give something up in 2019, consider learning something new instead. If you’re wondering what new skills to acquire, a great place to start is with Jeff Maggioncalda recently published list of skills you’ll need in 2019. Not...
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2018 in Review: New Edtech
For any new technology, an evolutionary process occurs. Like the tadpole that eventually takes to land as a frog, tech is invented, brought to market, and with any luck, scaled. The companies that build these technologies go through similar changes. To discuss new edtech in 2018, therefore…
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The EdTech Company That Is Putting the Brakes on Digital Distraction
Digital distraction isn’t just a problem facing the young. Adults in business meetings and even elected officials also have a difficult time avoiding digital distraction. In schools, however, the problem is rampant. One 2017 study carried out at Michigan State University discovered that students…
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Harvard Extension School Announces New Collaboration with Trilogy Education
Trilogy Education, the coding school that has made a name for itself by collaborating with universities, is going to Harvard. On December 4, Trilogy and the Harvard Extension School (HES) announced The Coding Boot Camp at Harvard Extension School. The goal is to offer an intensive web development...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Turns 250 and Observes 25 Years Online
December 10 marks a big milestone for one of the most widely used educational resources in the world. On this day in 1768, publication began in Edinburgh Scotland of the first version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A full 225 years after, (25 years ago today), the encyclopedia first went…
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