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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

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It’s solution: Create a new marketplace where instructors can find them. It’s not the first time that someone has tried a marketplace for courseware, notes Stephen Downes, a national expert in online learning technology who runs the long-running OLDaily newsletter. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based

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Reliable Turnitin alternatives for K12

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Irritation and stress from such tasks are like poison that makes instructors lose energy and harms their nerves. . Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made the workload even heavier, many instructors have felt how awful it is to use an unreliable plagiarism checker. Still, let’s take a look at the actual pros and cons of Turnitin.

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Brightspace Excellence Awards highlight innovation in online learning

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This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. Rochester Institute of Technology : Sandra Connelly, Instructor.

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Investors Write $3.2 Million Check for Writing Startup That’s All About Peer Feedback

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Students can do a self-reflection upon finishing the draft, and also engage in anonymous peer-reviews of each other’s work. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers. Other companies like Turnitin and WriteLab have turned to machine-learning technology to automate writing feedback.

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HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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Students met with instructors online via web conference platforms such as Webex or Zoom, working towards preset schedules, mandatory participation , and attendance according to required structures. According to the UDL core principle of engagement, instructors should provide different means of participation.

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25 AI predictions for 2025

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–Tiago Costa, Cloud & AI Architect, Microsoft; Pearson Video Lesson Instructor In the two years since GenAI was unleashed, K-12 leaders have ridden the wave of experimentation and uncertainty about the role this transformative technology should have in classrooms and districts.

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