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What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

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There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. But too often, a critical element is left out of the process: student voice. Want to know more about what these students had to say? Download out the full report here.

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Noodle Partners Goes After the $1.5B Online Degree Market

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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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Spaced Practice Works. A Learning Scientist Helped Me Understand Why.

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Every college student has been advised not to spend an all-nighter cramming for the big exam (though most have ignored that tip at least once). How can I space out the learning in this unit to combat the compartmentalization inherently promoted by curriculum designers? Common sense, right? The research behind it is solid.

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

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With Kolibri, we provide a free and open-source learning platform that's really designed for learners with limited digital literacy skills, so there aren’t as many barriers to adoption. Recommended Resources: Explore Kolibri Donate to Learning Equality About Learning Equality Want to get started with Kolibri?

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The All-Black and Latino School Where Every Kid Can Code

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James Mills (left) and Kaiya Everett (right), two sixth grade students at DPA designing websites to host their original trivia games. Emily Tate / EdSurge) An expressed goal of the school, Ashton said, is to have 100 percent of students pass the AP Computer Science Principles exam by the end of 10th grade. “We

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Comparison between traditional K-12 schools and online schooling

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Whether you’re looking for online school programs for K12 students or online education in India , virtual learning schools offer curriculums designed to meet diverse needs. Diverse Curriculum Options Traditional K-12 schools often follow a set curriculum mandated by the state or country.

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Designing College Curricula for Student Success

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Curriculum must be created in a way that promotes access and diversity, but also provides students with learning experiences relevant to the 21st century and beyond, and prepares them to be successful in a changing globalized society. The third step in the initial design phase is to think about and plan the feedback and assessment procedures.