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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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If School A’s teachers are more motivated and choose to participate in the intervention while School B’s teachers opted out, it is impossible to disentangle the effects of an intervention from the qualities of the teachers who elected to use it. Who participated in the study? is something you care about.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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Thanks to Google Expeditions , Within , Aurasma , and many other tools, students can explore coral reefs , go to refugee camps , and watch art come to life. I believe expert educators in history, arts, science, and many more classrooms are poised to do the same this year.

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention.

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The ever-persistent ROI question: What is my degree worth?

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As a small, private, liberal arts institution in Spartanburg, South Carolina, our resources are not infinite. While many things have changed on our campus, one question remains constant: what is the return on investment for students attending Converse?