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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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Over the course of about 10 chapters, players read about different tools they can use to repel an animated robot attack on a facility they’ve built. But by some accounts he faces tough competition at home, competition that was partly blamed for the recent failure of education technology company Instructure to break into corporate learning.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

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That was when he saw firsthand “not only the scale of educational failure on the continent, but also the barriers to solving it,” he recalls via email. To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps.

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How Transparent is School Data When Parents Can’t Find or Understand it?

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Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. 126 on the waiting list. I don’t even go to it anymore. I can’t understand it.”

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

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I might read a book or take an online course to learn some new ideas. So this is a great technique to get students to interact with this concept in a way that they wouldn’t by just reading a chapter. The process gives them the opportunity to try several times and also gives room for failure.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

I might read a book or take an online course to learn some new ideas. So this is a great technique to get students to interact with this concept in a way that they wouldn’t by just reading a chapter. The process gives them the opportunity to try several times and also gives room for failure.

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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

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It encourages students to learn the material, relearn weak areas, and removes the fear-of-failure brain freeze that many students experience on test day. The two-hour proctored final exam (required for college credit) must be completed on a computer rather than a mobile device or tablet. Things to know.

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