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Network Monitoring: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us

EdTech Magazine

Course materials and books are online, classes meet through web portals, and non-IT systems like building control and laboratory technology are beginning to shift to the IT department. When IT is that critical to the educational mission, network failures or outages can have serious consequences.

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Labster Secures $47M in New Funding Tranche to Expand Global Opportunities for Virtual Science Laboratory Simulations

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Labster is the only offering in the market that provides a highly interactive life-like laboratory experience that is documented to reduce failure rates and improve outcomes for students. Science education is traditionally so ineffective that 60% of STEM students drop out.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent. But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

Home laboratory In a home laboratory, students experiment with a theory and report their findings to the instructor or to the class. Laboratory” tends to sound science-based, but there are many experiments students can do that are not necessarily science-related. How much time should students spend?

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

Edsurge

But the challenges and constraints of practical educational settings mean laboratory-based findings don’t readily translate into the kinds of practices, resources and tools that can meaningfully improve teaching and learning. We believe this to be an astounding moral failure.

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How a New Approach to Early Childhood Could Avert a ‘Public Policy Catastrophe’

Edsurge

The consequence, I guess, to taxpayers is that each and every one of us — whether we have a young child in our lives currently, whether our own children, our grandchild, or if you don't have young children at this stage in your life — every taxpayer in this country is paying for the results of our failure to get things right in the first place.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

Home laboratory In a home laboratory, students experiment with a theory and report their findings to the instructor or to the class. Laboratory” tends to sound science-based, but there are many experiments students can do that are not necessarily science-related. How much time should students spend?