No smartpen will be the magic bullet that lets a child who is struggling because of a disability suddenly succeed. Success is based on a lot of hard work for the student and parents and complete commitment for the teacher. The right resources and supports have to tie all of these elements together. That being said, there are several classroom models where students with disabilities can easily benefit from the echo smartpen.
(Link: Livescribe use models in special education | ZDNet)
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Inspired eLearning offers a fully hosted just-in-time eLearning solution for your enterprise class training requirements, powered by the iLMS, a robust Learning Management System designed to make enterprise level skills and knowledge management fast, affordable and effective. Our eLearning software enables our customers to offer more training to their employees than ever before with greater levels of tracking and accountability with a smaller budget than ever thought possible. Ideal for compliance training, skills assessment, product and sales training, and distance learning, the Inspired LMS takes eLearning to a new level of practicality, affordability and value.
(Link: Inspired LMS – Custom eLearning Solutions)
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Grockit has correlated its content and tags to over 1000 YouTube Edu videos, which teach everything from from individual academic standards to every area of GMAT prep. For example, while a student is studying for GMAT prep on Grockit, the site will surface videos teaching any content related to the GMAT. It essentially blends text learning lessons with video learning.
(Link: Grockit Makes YouTube EDU More Useful)
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Indeed, with the iPad you can study and learn from anywhere. All you need to be able to do is connect to the Internet. So, figure out which online university you want to attend, and get yourself an iPad
(Link: Top 50 iPad Apps for e-Learners)
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The Instructional Genome is an artificially intelligent set of engines working together to create a complete e-learning experience. It identifies, categorizes, and systematizes the learning potential of any audience by streamlining the e-learning development process. Based on rule-sets we created, we captured all optional components of how performance-based e-learning content has been delivered and implemented in our product.
(Link: Instructional Genome | NogginLabs, Inc.)
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Nixty is aiming to be a huge platform for eLearning courses worldwide. Right now, the company has 200 courses from schools like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, IIT and Berkeley, and offers a variety of teaching tools like automated grade books and easy-to-make-and-print certificates. In addition to aggregating Ivy League courses and putting them in a far easier to navigate, socially-driven user interface, Nixty is hoping teachers and experts will use its easy drag and drop course building software to create new courses, bringing in a wiki angle where people can add certain texts, videos or lectures to a course.
(Link: Nixty Launches With Ambitions to Build Something Huge in eLearning)
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What if you had effective and powerful learning assets when you leave the classroom or formal learning environments?
What if you could access them using the various digital environments that are a part of your everyday life?
What if you could do all that for free or less than the cost of single online course?
(Link: mobl21.com – Mobile Learning | mLearning)
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They open students up to a global learning community: iPads continue the tech trend of opening users up to the rest of the world. Even young students will be able to communicate with kids from around the world, learn from teachers at other schools, and collaborate on projects and participate in discussions within the greater, global academic community.
(Link: 10 Ways the iPad Will Forever Change Education | Online Colleges)
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The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC) DataShop is a data repository and web application for learning science researchers. It provides secure data storage as well as an array of analysis and visualization tools available through a web-based interface.
(Link: DataShop)
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GreatSchools is a national nonprofit whose mission is to inspire and guide parents to become
effective champions of their children’s education at home and in their communities.
(Link: GreatSchools – Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community)
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Schoology’s mission is to leverage the familiarity of popular social media tools to improve communication and collaboration inside and outside of the classroom. Schoology provides a full suite of learning management tools, including an online gradebook, attendance, test/quizzes, discussion boards, blogs, homework dropboxes, and collaborative course and group pages.
The social network permits cross-school networking allowing for multiple organizations to participate in shared classes, groups, and discussions.
(Link: Schoology Raises $1.25 Million For Learning Management Software)
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At Kaplan University’s law school, digital texts account for around 80% of assigned reading. At Capella University, e-textbooks are an available and accepted option in nearly all 1,250 courses. In for-profit higher education, more than any other sector, the traditional book is becoming obsolete.
(Link: For-profit colleges lead the way in adopting e-textbooks – USATODAY.com)
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A few weeks ago, a Social Media Cheat Sheet was doing the round. A nice visualization of the pro’s & cons of each social media channel, but with a business/marketing focus. I thought I should do one for social media use in education. However for most of the teachers I work with, our Moodle (EIT Online) is still their primary online teaching environment. So instead I set out to create this poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.
(Link: Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers – Cat’s Pyjamas)
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The entire learning path in MathZee is designed based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. In combination with some of the highest elementary standards in the country, our games are designed to carefully apply the math curriculum your child is learning at school.
(Link: MathZee – math games and curriculum)
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Jeff Young sez, “Khan Academy is a one-man university on YouTube. Lectures are 10 minutes each. Self-paced assessments. Everything is free. Should traditional higher ed be worried or excited? It’s an outsider operation that raised $150,000+ in donations from tech entpreneurs and small PayPal contribs. And it’s the most popular education video site on YouTube — more popular than MIT’s OpenCourseWare. The founder has big plans to try to turn it into a recognized charter school for K-12 and to help challenge model of college instruction.”
(Link: One-person academy tops YouTube’s educational chart – Boing Boing)
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