eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced a three-year agreement with Laredo Independent School District to bring its award-winning program to approximately 23,600 students and 1,100 teachers. Laredo ISD is located in Laredo, Texas , on the border with Mexico.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

Immersive metaverse learning can help students and teachers to achieve similar benefits without the need to physically experience things in this way. This means that similar learning outcomes can be achieved at any time, even if the conditions are not ideal and if observing something or traveling somewhere is not possible.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. Recent studies by Deloitte and the Gates Foundation have shed light into how educators engage with edtech. But as the usage and positive perception of digital learning tools grow in U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit in-person meetings, Wyzant makes it easy to access and communicate with qualified tutors from anywhere in the world through its free online learning tool. About IXL Learning .

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

This would facilitate more effective personalized guidance by the instructor and better awareness on the part of the student as to where they need to put additional focus in their study. But teachers are not (usually) data scientists themselves, and need analytics tools to help them extract value from the data.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital learning tools and digital technologies have broken down geographical barriers and provided access to educational resources for students no matter their socioeconomic status or geographic location. Battling this so-called “opportunity gap” makes personalized learning and skill development more inclusive and accessible.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

But they aren’t speech recognition themselves,” says Scanlon, whose company develops speech technology used in learning tools. Nitta cited a study conducted by Stanford University professor Bruce McCandliss, which suggests that sounding out words accurately may be more effective at helping children learn and recall vocabulary.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. By combining the power of AI with an incredibly engaging user experience, we’ve created a learning tool that makes studying not only effective but also fun,” said LearnWith.AI Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

. “During the stress and uncertainty of COVID, teachers were able to not only provide continuity of instruction, but they were able to support students in making independent progress in these extraordinary times,” said Dr. Liz Brooke, chief learning officer of Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone Inc.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

For optimal effectiveness, these videos should align with the student learning outcomes, aiming to inform, excite, and prepare students for their upcoming laboratory activities. Effective pre-lab videos must have well-defined learning outcomes. 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014). Engineering Education 4 (2): 70–75.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 16, 2025

A 2024 Journal of Educational Psychology study showed that students with strong spelling and writing skills were 25% more likely to secure college scholarships. This is the first time that EdAlive as combined both technologies into the one learning tool. Click to view slideshow.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

For optimal effectiveness, these videos should align with the student learning outcomes, aiming to inform, excite, and prepare students for their upcoming laboratory activities. Effective pre-lab videos must have well-defined learning outcomes. 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014). Engineering Education 4 (2): 70–75.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Over time, they have also become learning tools in educational contexts–especially for note-taking, brainstorming, and studying for exams (Erdem, Farrand, Bandera, Mugnai). Instead of merely recalling what they’ve learned, students draw connections together and evaluate the choices they make as they co-create their mind map.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Over time, they have also become learning tools in educational contexts–especially for note-taking, brainstorming, and studying for exams (Erdem, Farrand, Bandera, Mugnai). Instead of merely recalling what they’ve learned, students draw connections together and evaluate the choices they make as they co-create their mind map.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. For example, AI tools should use data responsibly, improving learning outcomes without storing sensitive information in proprietary, vendor-controlled data lakes.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

To improve learning outcomes for all learners, the development of several learning style assessments and neurodiversity instructional methods over the past 25 years have supported the idea that students learn in diverse ways (Dimitrov & Deardorff, 2023). She is the author of, In Search of Servant Leadership.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. Researchers are already studying the extent to which OER materials help achieve those goals. The heat took some getting used to.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This dynamic approach not only improves learning outcomes but also prepares students for a technologically advanced world. How can technology enhance teaching and learning in the classroom? One of the primary ways technology enhances teaching is through interactive learning tools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

To ensure the use technology in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning effectively in the classroom, educators must adopt a strategic approach that enhances learning outcomes. First, it’s essential to integrate technology that aligns with learning objectives.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

To improve learning outcomes for all learners, the development of several learning style assessments and neurodiversity instructional methods over the past 25 years have supported the idea that students learn in diverse ways (Dimitrov & Deardorff, 2023). She is the author of, In Search of Servant Leadership.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

As founding director of CASTLE (the Center for the Advanced Study of Tech­nology Leadership in Education), the nation’s only university center dedicated to the technology needs of school leaders, I have had the good fortune to work with administrators all over the world on digital leadership issues.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

These dialogues, often referred to as cogen, are a structured discourse in which students and teachers discuss students learning and the environment around the course materials in an effort to identity and implement changes to the teaching and learning process (Boss & Linder, 2016). Why problem-based learning?: Trolian (Eds.),

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