Press Release • Oct 29, 2024 Educating the professions that serve the 6+ million real estate transactions annually a year in the U.S., The CE Shop is honored…
Read more Interlocking on Ethical Standards and Professionalism, National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) Names The CE Shop as Service Provider of the YearA dashboard from the Canvas learning management system is displayed to students in this college lecture hall. A University of Michigan study finds that students with last names…
Read more Why an end-of-the alphabet last name could skew your gradesThis story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission. Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter. Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter…
Read more Why thousands of Philly families are switching to cyber charter school – The Hechinger ReportA student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. (Screenshot courtesy of Gregory Kestin) We are still in the…
Read more An AI tutor helped Harvard students learn more physics in less timeThe pandemic disrupted education in previously unimaginable ways. It limited testing and pushed schools toward remote learning and easier assignments, along with softer grading and a more relaxed…
Read more OPINION: As kids head back to school, parents should be asking if their kids are ready for grade-level workDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of…
Read more Invest in Yourself with a Lifetime of StackSkills Courses for $29.97 | EntrepreneurDoes AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school…
Read more Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on testsThese digital-first bragging rights are known as micro-credentials, and they’re booming right now. Micro-credentialing has been accelerated by the pandemic-driven demand for online learning, job-seekers’ efforts to upskill…
Read more Micro-credentials in Canada: Is it worth it to upskill? – MoneySenseTwo University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. Credit: Eugene Mymrin/ Moment…
Read more Researchers combat AI hallucinations in mathEver since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up…
Read more PROOF POINTS: New studies of online tutoring highlight troubles with attendance and larger tutoring groupsOne brain study, published in May 2024, detected different electrical activity in the brain after students had read a passage on paper, compared with screens. Credit: Getty Images…
Read more PROOF POINTS: This is your brain. This is your brain on screensRates of chronic absenteeism are at record-high levels. More than 1 in 4 students missed 10 percent or more of the 2021-22 school year. That means millions of…
Read more OPINION: There’s a promising path to get students back on track to graduation – The Hechinger ReportPress Release • May 29, 2024 15:30 EDT Tech Life Unity, previously Techboomers, announces its launch as a website that teaches technology users how to use popular websites…
Read more Introducing Tech Life Unity, a Digital Literacy Resource (Formerly Techboomers)Schools spend billions of dollars a year on products and services, including everything from staplers and textbooks to teacher coaching and training. Does any of it help students…
Read more PROOF POINTS: We have tried paying teachers based on how much students learn. Now schools are expanding that idea to contractors and vendors.Key points: Blended learning is not a new instructional approach, but it became more mainstream during and after the COVID pandemic, when educators and students elected to keep…
Read more Friday 5: Blended learningTOHONO O’ODHAM NATION, Ariz. — By the numbers, Tohono O’odham Community College is booming. Enrollment in the fall semester was just under 1,200, according to the American Indian…
Read more A vexing drawback to tribal online college: cultural and social isolation – The Hechinger ReportKey points: Online learning has limitless potential for students and teachers, offering the ability to learn from any location and at all times of the day. Let’s take…
Read more Friday 5: Online learning’s evolutionAs schools and educators grapple with using artificial intelligence, or AI, in the classroom, I find myself excited by the possibilities for students with dyslexia. Technology can finally…
Read more OPINION: Not enough students with dyslexia have access to high-quality reading and writing instruction. AI can help.The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes. One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to…
Read more PROOF POINTS: Most college kids are taking at least one class online, even long after campuses reopenedEditor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher…
Read more A new partnership paves the way for greater use of AI in higher ed – The Hechinger Report
