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04/23/21 The Campus Technology Insider podcast explores current trends and issues impacting technology leaders in higher education. Listen in as Executive Editor Rhea Kelly chats with ed tech experts and practitioners about their work, ideas and experiences. Supporting Entrepreneurship from a Distance: How Harvard’s Innovation Labs Went Virtual Matt Segneri When you picture a university innovation center, what comes to mind is usually a lot of hands-on collaboration and networking. There might be a makerspace involved, and surely a wall of post-it notes or whiteboard scribbles from a late-n...

04/21/21 The U.S. Department of Education has issued a request for information on how schools, colleges and universities, and early education providers are reopening, operating safely and supporting students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The information gathered will inform ED's Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse, a website under development that will highlight lessons learned from the field and provide resources for meeting student, teacher, faculty and staff needs. The request for information is focused on three topics: Safe and healthy environments. Here, ED is looking...

By Dian Schaffhauser 04/13/21 A December 2020 purchase of Certica Solutions is bearing fruit for learning management company Instructure. The maker of Canvas has announced a new collection of formative assessments specifically intended to help teachers measure "learning loss," built by the curriculum and assessment experts who joined as part of that acquisition. MasteryView Assessments are short, pre-built evaluations for math and English language arts that align with various state learning standards. The assessments can be used with MasteryConnect, an assessment management program produced b...

By Dian Schaffhauser 04/13/21 While many high schoolers have myriad routes to graduation, those pathways are not all equal, and some may steer students into unexpected outcomes that limit their options early in life. As a research project from the Alliance for Excellent Education found, currently, 29 states offer varied pathways to high school graduation. Some participate in experiential learning opportunities such as apprenticeships and work-based or service learning; others take multiple end-of-course tests or show their knowledge and competency with performance-based assessments; some earn...

04/12/21 A new study out of MIT's Sloan School of Management explores the use of ideas and tools from the gaming community to improve online teaching and student learning outcomes. Among the techniques highlighted: using strong narratives throughout lectures; providing students with constant streams of input via a variety of media; and giving students opportunities to communicate and join in the action. "Teachers around the country, thrown online by surprise because of COVID-19, discovered that using many traditional, in-class teaching techniques didn't translate as well to an online environ...