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As Apple pushes out its new education products, new information about whether using the iPad gives students an advantage over using print books is starting to surface. Results from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s year-long study comparing students using the publisher’s iPad algebra app are in from Amelia Earhart school in Riverside, Calif., and it’s largely positive, according to the company. [...]

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It’s not enough to take a traditional K-12 classroom and fill it with technology. The smart classroom requires a more methodic approach that factors in the design of the basic shell, the teacher’s space, and the students’ independent and collaborative work areas. Schools that ignore this step, said Issac Herskowitz, director of New York-based Touro College’sinstructional [...]

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The population of homeschoolers in the United States continues to grow according to new research and the report,2.04 Million Homeschool Students in the United States in 2010, recently published by the National Home Education Research Institute. By their calculations, the growth rate from 2007 to the present has been 8.3% per year. Because some states [...]

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The article talks about flipped classroom, flipped model, flipped learning model. It is of help for those who want to learn about what is elearning, online learning, and flipped learning, etc all about. Learning in the flipped classroom is something that happens if the learner and / or teacher go against the traditional chalk and [...]

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The Diffusion Simulation Game  is a game developed by Indiana University in which players explore strategies that result in the adoption of innovation in a fictitious junior high. The goal is to get stakeholders (the school principal, teachers, and support staff) to adopt  peer tutoring. As a player, you can decide whether to gather information, talk to [...]

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Piers Lea, CEO, discusses the current and 2012 landscape for mobile learning.It is nearly two years since I gave the opinion, on this blog, that it was time for organisations to embrace mobile learning. Now in 2012, demand for mobile services is growing, not just for learning, but throughout the enterprise. A survey we conducted [...]

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Author and performance support expert, Bob Mosher, is presenting at January’s Learning Technologies Conference in London on supporting performance by supplying the right type of learning – at the time learners need it. The Learning Technologies Conference in January is to challenge L&D professionals to get to grips with their role in enabling performance and [...]

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Given the work that I do, I’m a sucker for skill lists. As our work worlds grow ever more complex and challenging, it seems that the skills themselves become more complex too. Increasingly, though, I’ve begun to believe that these lists are distracting us from the real skills of success. While working with big data, operating in [...]

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A robot walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have a screwdriver.” A bad joke, indeed. But even less funny if the robot says “Give me what’s in your cash register.” The fictional theme of robots turning against humans is older than the word itself, which first appeared in the title of Karel Čapek’s 1920 [...]