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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2020, Forbes named MindLabs the STEM product with the best hands-on and AR integration, and in January 2023, FETC awarded MindLabs first place at Pitchfest in the Immersive Technology category.

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MARCH 7, 2018

There are many professors I've spoken to who are fascinated by research on learning science, educational technology, approaching to teaching of learning. I'm curious, because you note in your study that higher education is at a big moment of change, and that new ways of teaching better fit the needs of today’s workplace.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. That’s the engineering side of my brain.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible. We enable organizations to have ownership over how they contextualize education technology specific to their local needs and experience. All of this is part of our theory of change.

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APRIL 4, 2022

As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Upon graduation I joined him to lead educational technology research and Constructionist theory development. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. This innovative research work continued through the ‘90s, as he served as MIT’s LEGO Professor of Learning Research.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

Complex instruction leverages open-ended tasks, specifically designed for diverse groups of learners. This style of curriculum design keeps learners connected to one another through common tasks, cultivating an academic sense of belonging among students, while naturally personalizing your curriculum through student agency.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Every one of our investors invested with an intention to play an integral role, whether that’s through curriculum design, branding, promotion or product development,” he says. It’s an audacious vision, one which Shenoy acknowledges will require the right partners to turn into a reality.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Schools across the globe are experiencing an influx of digital technologies—from systems that allow teachers to monitor computer use in the classroom to adaptive learning applications, machine learning-based programs that modify instruction based on students’ behaviour and proficiency.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I struggled with classroom management, curriculum design and the pressures of working in a high-poverty school. I entered the classroom through an alternative certification program , which meant I hadn’t received the same level of preparation as teachers who came through traditional teacher training routes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rather than creating online degree programs from scratch, Noodle is outsourcing various aspects—recruitment, curriculum design—to other companies and bundling together the services for universities. Perhaps the university wants to outsource recruitment and analytics for its online program but handle the curriculum design internally.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Look for STEM programs and online resources that provide step-by-step curriculum designed for the classroom or PD opportunities for teachers. In-person and virtual learning experiences give teachers confidence to coach STEM and robotics programs.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says. “The faculty are identifying the gaps, and the hospital is providing insight on the gaps they’re seeing. Egan says creating and adapting open textbooks will likewise make college more nimble.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I want teachers and tutors and curriculum designers to be free to do the things that we think are good and right for kids. I don’t want to be “school.” In fact, one of my earliest decisions was to be supplemental. I don’t want to be constrained by the things that schools need to do.

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JULY 20, 2017

If you’re looking for a crash course in digital education specifically, recordings from Stanford’s lecture series on Education’s Digital Future are all available for free online. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2020

That’s why we work to provide resources and technology to connect what’s possible for all stakeholders, expanding and enhancing the expectations of what education should be,” said Joel Hernandez, CEO of eLumen. Designing Quality Curriculum and Processes?This

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a particularly challenging aspect of any educational plan, as it deals with the kind of character traits that are most difficult to monitor and measure in students—social awareness, self-efficacy, stress management, decision making, interpersonal behavior, and relationship building.

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MARCH 29, 2024

AI is going to transform every aspect of higher education and the student journey. How students engage with their professors, the methods used to evaluate learning and retention and course curriculum design will all be influenced by the opportunities and challenges posed by AI.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Our primary teachers are talking about cognitive load—or the mental effort associated with tasks—and how designing lessons that recognize its importance, help our littlest learners to fend off frustration and overwhelm. That’s why our courses for new teachers reflect our system’s value that each teacher should understand how the brain learns.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The classroom program, which began in fall 2018 and runs through the spring, pairs Nintendo technology with a curriculum designed by the Institute of Play to create a STEM-focused, hands-on learning experience that combines digital and physical elements.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

As brainstorming continued so too did the sense of empathy for the many educators whose innovative work was found piecemeal throughout the state yet not communicated broadly within the education community. One potential fix?

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

I’ve heard you say the curriculum is more like TikTok than Scholastic. I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.” Tanner: I would say the persona of the course is what students are used to finding online, on social media platforms. Instead of saying, ’These are your learning objectives,’ we just have #goals.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In fact, the word “curriculum,” whether followed by “writer” or designer,” appears to resonate relatively strongly with viewers. Take the five most viewed job postings from last year: “Curriculum designer” at NoRedInk. Educator success job” at Better World Ed. Language arts curriculum designer” at IXL Learning.

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APRIL 9, 2019

How can I space out the learning in this unit to combat the compartmentalization inherently promoted by curriculum designers? How can I enrich the learning experience so that students are naturally thinking about the topic outside of classroom and during homework time?

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MAY 13, 2019

In early May, students were finishing up a website design unit in their computer science class, which follows the curriculum designed by RePublic Schools , a charter school network based in Nashville, Tenn. The curriculum, which is aligned to the AP Computer Science framework, is free, but teacher training is not.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One promising development in blended curriculum design that promotes student engagement is the new COVA model.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381. Wang, Huanhuan, and James D.

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MARCH 6, 2017

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. The school is completely “off the grid,” powered by solar panels and wind generators.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Instructors who recorded the lectures came from institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, New York University and Davidson College.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

We wanted participants in the collaboration to be diverse, with faculty, staff, administrators and curriculum designers contributing, and we wanted students to be the focus of our discussions. Together, they reviewed the maps and exchanged insights about curriculum design and ways to work effectively with faculty.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381. Wang, Huanhuan, and James D.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Crisp noted, “most analytics right now just show engagement, which is one measure, but strategically placed Q&A could tell curriculum designers a lot about what knowledge, skills and abilities are sticking and where the instruction misses the mark.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We then (re)design the curriculum to match, then go through a curriculum review” - and this process is iterated over time. Entangled Solutions felt, “Educators should develop the curriculum - they are curriculum design experts. But this is an ecosystem problem.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Fiore says she is particularly proud of this initiative, because it is the first program where LaGuardia took an employer-heavy approach to curriculum design and saw success. Working with LaGuardia, it developed the medical billing program to help fill this need.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

There is this whole world of open access communities out there that have built a plethora of tools that really do everything that they say they needed Kaplan to do, everything from the design of curriculum design to delivery. You have to cobble them together from like four or five providers, but they’re there.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

A venture-backed company today announced a new educational offering billed as an alternative to the standard undergraduate experience. It will last only one calendar year, feature a curriculum designed in close coordination with well-known employers, and cost nothing—at least at the outset.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Often times, and especially with schools building online courses, they may be very familiar with curriculum design, but very unfamiliar with video production,” Tringe notes. “We We want to create a platform that can help them with calculating costs, scheduling, budgeting and development.”

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