eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2017

In February 2016, South Carolina’s Horry County School District was forced to pay a $10,000 ransom to unlock critical data and systems following a ransomware attack. This certainly came as a shock, but unfortunately these types of attacks on schools aren’t all that uncommon. 3 Measures Schools Can Take to Stay Ahead of Ransomware: 1.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Developed by Full Sail University with the goal of creating an engaging and open learning environment that allows children and teens to explore creativity through storytelling, art, and technology, Full Sail Labs provides young creative talent with the knowledge to become digital content creators.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Developed by Full Sail University with the goal of creating an engaging and open learning environment that allows children and teens to explore creativity through storytelling, art, and technology, Full Sail Labs provides young creative talent with the knowledge to become digital content creators.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

Source: The House Author and school design consultant Robert Dillon calls the variation in learning spaces—large tables, sitting areas and glass-walled breakout rooms—“micro-environments,” and says it’s similar to what districts around the country are attempting to create using open learning spaces and flexible furniture. “I

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I'm not suggesting blowing up schools. The next step is to apply that research in actual college instruction. That is our instinct.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

“I pulled through with grit, but I sincerely hated school,” explains Heimes. His own school experiences have since fueled his drive to support data-driven personalized learning in an effort to make today’s schools engaging, fun and free of “the stress and angst” many students feel. Project Unicorn’s School Resources.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. That happened in 2017.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. Bier: The Open Learning Initiative has a statistics course.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. You can pose a question for a future column here. A conversation broke out on Twitter last week. How do you make Zoom breakout groups less boring?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

She referenced three examples of creative uses by IDEO U students, from Jess in Melbourne, who formed her own in-person local learning circle to employees at an architecture firm in Italy who used a prototyping leader’s guide to help them work on a common project during their weekly happy hours.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Hoffman’s interest in exposing faculty at Seattle Pacific University to free and open learning materials is largely due to expensive textbook prices and the interest she hears from students for cheaper alternatives. The critical part, Hoffman says, is “really trying to clarify what it is that you are sharing back.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

I’m starting a school. Capitol Learning Academy (CLA) plans to launch in Washington D.C. next fall as a nonprofit private elementary micro-school, starting with ages seven to nine and expanding in both directions to serve a capacity of 150 students over the coming years. I’m looking for a unicorn.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

We know that personalized and adaptive approaches can be effective,” says Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI), which develops adaptive courses that use open educational resources and provide student feedback. We have to build adaptive learners not adaptive learning,” he says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The assistant vice provost at the University of California, Davis, is leading the school's efforts to overhaul these classes and make them more accessible to students. How do we maximize their learning?" What can we do when we see 600 students at a time? Molinaro asks.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Schools within the university that produce well-performing MOOCs, he says, will sometimes put the revenue into an “academic innovation fund” to improve teaching throughout the department. I don’t know that I would want to do the MOOC thing as my primary job, but as a secondary thing it’s very satisfying.”

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education who previously worked in the private sector, stresses that she’s not against software companies. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Their first big project in that space was MIT’s Open Courseware.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

In most cases, inquiry-based learning builds on project-based learning with an emphasis on a students own questions and reflections. And inquiry-based learning works at any grade level! A successful approach to inquiry-based learning takes students from the structured beginnings to a more open learning style.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The first segment included two guests with different perspectives: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning. The hour-long discussion was rich, so we’re releasing it in two installments.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This can be done through discussion, readings about cogenerative dialogues in the college or graduate school setting, or both. However, it is imperative that students understand the purposes of the dialogues and have investment in their learning through the dialogues. Student perceptions of effective teaching traits and strategies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. As a result, educators have been forced to rethink how they teach using digital instructional tools and practices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.” The institution hasn’t started an academic effort on this scale since the founding of the Sloan School of Management in 1950.

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