7 Ideas for Remaking Higher Educaiton
Higher education has some issues. Its cost keeps rising and even if we ever get one time student loan forgiveness,...
HMH is buying NWEA: The giants keep getting giant-er
There is further consolidation in the EdTech industry as a publishing giant, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is buying the Oregon-based assessment...
The NPR Student Podcast Challenge
For the 5th year in a row National Public Radio is running the Student Podcast Challenge offering US middle and...
ChatGPT and student essays: Is this the end of homework?
Do you think you could spot something that was written by artificial Intelligence? If you have been paying attention to...
The 3 Best Education Alternatives to Twitter
When even Donald Trump doesn’t want to return to Twitter after Elon Musk desperately re-activated his account, you know the...
3 Ways to achieve effective online tutoring
One of the most powerful strategies for responding to learning loss is one-on-one, high-dosage tutoring. This means tutoring in very...
Competency based education is having a moment
Competency based education (CBE), sometimes called outcome based education, has for years been a utopian ideal for technocratic reformers. The...
“Zoom seemed to bring more students into the conversation” and other pandemic insights from Stanford
Stanford just released a comprehensive educational report on the pandemic focusing on the “emergency remote teaching phase” which they identify...
Big Data and student performance: Insights from an LMS
In our recent story about Google buying BrightBytes, there was a lot of discussion about what kind of data is...
Google is taking a silent step into the ed data space by buying BrightBytes
Google has confirmed to EdSurge that it bought educational data company BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount sometime around mid-May 2022. ...