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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

Edsurge

In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

eSchool News

Cherlendy Louis, a student and TeachTap user in New York City, said, “Instead of getting bored and zoning out using textbooks, TeachTap makes topics so much more entertaining. Government, Environmental Science, Biology, Psychology, Macroeconomics and Human Geography Two general high school courses: Physics and U.S.

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

eSchool News

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12. Textbook Alignment Courses.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. With increased funding challenges and various political pressures surrounding wellness programs, science will drive decision-making. Using a science of literacy-based instructional approach doesn’t always look identical.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. “ As a concrete example of why that synchronization is necessary, multiple states allow a high degree of local control over the curriculum.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. With increased funding challenges and various political pressures surrounding wellness programs, science will drive decision-making. Using a science of literacy-based instructional approach doesn’t always look identical.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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