More Battle Creek-area students are earning college credits in high school

by Noe Hernandez, Battle Creek Enquirer

Makenna Fredenburg has already saved around $10,000 in college tuition costs, and she hasn’t even graduated from high school. She’ll probably save at least as much before the end of this school year. The Harper Creek High School senior is one of more than 1,200 area high school students taking advantage of Kellogg Community College’s dual enrollment and early college programs. The programs allow high school students to enroll in on-campus and online classes — sometimes enough to graduate from KCC with an associate’s degree — at no cost to them while they’re still in high school.

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2018/01/18/battle-creek-students-college-credits-high-school-kellogg-dual-enrollment/1027881001/

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What Is the Role of Online Program Management?

By Henry Kronk, eLearning Inside

When a professor wishes to take their course online, it requires more than just uploading their lecture powerpoints to a learning management system. They’re going to want to consult with professionals when recording the video and audio of their lectures. They’ll need an IT guy to make sure that the university’s servers or cloud storage has the capacity for the number of users. With fully online programs, they’ll need programmers to actually design the student experience, the semester, monthly, or weekly schedule, and much more. Increasingly, universities contract this job out to third parties, as they do with student cafeterias, health services, and campus bookstores. These companies are known as online program management providers.

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How brands can maintain a successful Facebook strategy after the algorithm change

by Tereza Litsa, ClickZ

On Thursday (Jan 11, 2018) Facebook announced the decision to prioritize the content from family and friends over Pages.   According to Mark Zuckerberg, “As we roll this out, you’ll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media. And the public content you see more will be held to the same standard — it should encourage meaningful interactions between people.” What’s the best way to make sure that your Facebook marketing strategy will still be successful after Facebook’s algorithm change? All about the engagement: Facebook made it very clear that engagement will be a crucial factor that will determine whether your Page’s content deserves to show up on your audience’s news feed.

How brands can maintain a successful Facebook strategy after the algorithm change

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Schools to expand dual credit offerings

By Sarah Plummer, Montgomery Herald

With an eye on boosting course offerings and academic rigor, Fayette County Schools is expanding its dual credit offerings in hopes of having the advanced courses in all high schools by fall 2017. Anna Kincaid-Cline, director of curriculum, said some dual credit classes, which allow students to receive both high school and college credit, were piloted at Midland Trail High. Partnerships with area colleges are expanding, and spring courses are now offered at Meadow Bridge and Oak Hill high schools.

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Blissfield schools add to online options

By Mark Haney, Daily Telegram

Want to take an honors science class? Need to retake classes you failed? Or just need to stay current in classes while recovering from an extensive illness? Those are just some of the uses of Blissfield Community School’s virtual course offerings. The school board voted Monday to approve using Pearson Gradpoint as the district’s source of online classes. The catalog the Baltimore, Maryland, firm offers is extensive. It includes everything from Algebra 1 to honors marine science, from consumer math to anthropology I and II, as well as an array of Advanced Placement and multi-level language classes.

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Twin Lakes offers “lovely balance” between online and classroom learning

By Andrew Philips, Orillia Packet

An Orillia high school is offering twin styles of learning. The innovative blended learning course at Twin Lakes Secondary School is a unique entry, featuring both online curriculum and face-to-face learning with a teacher in a computer lab. “This is a regular class that we have in a computer room,” explained Robyn LaChapelle, who teaches the Grade 10 civics and careers class. And while many teachers are already using various forms of online learning in their classes, this marks the first formal e-learning course offered at Twin Lakes. “We thought. ‘Why not have a trial run in Grade 10?’” LaChapelle said. “This provides more availability since every student learns differently.”

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Personalized Learning: Creating a Relevant Learning Culture for the Next Generation

by Center for Digital Education

Personalized learning – where students take ownership of their learning and collaborate with instructors to design an education plan that works for them – is enticing education leaders as a way to transform the traditional education model, increase student engagement and improve achievement. But while personalized learning is certainly promising, a recent CDE survey of 215 IT leaders in K-20 education shows the concept has not been widely implemented in K-12 or higher education. Just 20 percent of K-12 respondents and 15 percent of higher education respondents reporting having created a personalized learning culture.

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/paper/Personalized-Learning-Creating-a-Relevant-Learning-Culture-for-the-Next-Generation-8132.html

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UGA professor contributes to new science education guidelines

by Kristen Morales, Online Athens

A new report released this week will give lawmakers, school officials and others specific direction when it comes to supporting and strengthening science teacher learning, says a University of Georgia professor who contributed to the effort. The report, “Science Teachers’ Learning: Enhancing Opportunities, Creating Supportive Contexts,” produced by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, assesses and discusses essential learning opportunities for elementary, middle and high school science teachers. The book also recommends new lines of research and steps administrators and lawmakers can take to strengthen science education in the U.S.

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Venture Capital In EdTech Is Booming

by Karis Hustad, ChicagoInno

Education technology, or edtech, had an impressive fourth quarter in terms of venture capital investments, according to new KPMG/CB Insights data. There were just over $1 billion in investments in Q4 2015, up 300 percent over the $295 million in investments seen in Q3 2015, and significantly higher than the $474 million raised in Q2, and $694 million raised in Q1, according to the KPMG and CB Insights Q4 Venture Pulse study. So does this mean the beginning of the edtech boom? According to experts it bodes well for certain companies, but the edtech industry still lags far behind most industries when it comes to fundraising.

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Data shows widening gap in higher-ed technology adoption

by EDUCAUSE

Research from higher education technology association EDUCAUSE shows that in 2015, colleges and universities will need to evolve to address very real challenges of IT security, cost, and productivity, as well as providing user support for the “new normal” that covers mobile, cloud, online education, and BYOD environments. “The pace of change for higher education information technology is increasing–not slowing–and on many fronts. Trends that have previously dominated thought leadership and motivated early adopters are now cascading into the mainstream,” said Susan Grajek, vice president of data, research, and analytics at EDUCAUSE.

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edX: Programming language Scratch isn’t just for kids anymore

by Barb Darrow, GigaOm

Scratch is a programming language built to help children learn basic programming skills. But now edX, the MOOC (for Massive Open Online Course) backed by top colleges including MIT, Harvard and Caltech, will offer a free Scratch course for anyone “regardless of age or digital skill.” Registration is open now for Programming in Scratch” which kicks off February 2. The course will be taught by Colleen Lewis, professor of computer science at Harvey Mudd College, a tech powerhouse and another edX partner school.

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How Apple wants to remake the classroom

By Nick Heath, Tech Republic

Apple has more than one million apps, more than two million books, almost one million media files available through its services, according to Couch, as well as more than 10,000 public courses through its online learning repository iTunes U – with Apple breaking down some of that content into categories and educational level to make it easier to browse. Increasingly teachers and students will turn to personalised learning services such as eSpark he said, where the students and teachers can choose the lessons that best suits the student, moving away from one size fits all education. “Going forward technology will really empower teachers to meet the need of each individual student.”

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-apple-wants-to-remake-the-classroom/

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The 10 Biggest Trends in Ed Tech

By David Raths, THE Journal

The one guaranteed constant in educational technology is change, and the pace of that change is definitely accelerating. So as we approach the new year, T.H.E. Journal pauses to survey the ed tech trends on the horizon. As in previous years, we have assembled a distinguished panel of five experts, including several from our advisory board. We asked them to consider 10 topics related to instructional technology and predict whether each topic will be HOT ⇧, LUKEWARM ⇔, or LOSING STEAM ⇓ in 2014. We compiled their responses to come up with an overall trend line. There was unanimous agreement on some topics and less consensus on others, but taken together, their responses paint a compelling picture of what to expect from ed tech in 2014.

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George Siemens to Lead New Lab for Ed Tech Research

By Mary Grush, Campus Technology

This spring, George Siemens will make the move stateside to the University of Texas-Arlington, where he will base his research on how technology and digital networks influence the knowledge development process within society, and related implications for the future of higher education institutions. Siemens is an internationally known and highly respected researcher, currently based at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada, an author of books on connectivism and knowledge processes, and a highly active collaborator with global research organizations. His work at the new LINK lab [Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab] at UTA will include both local UTA initiatives and collaborations with other institutions and research organizations worldwide. Siemens also plans to create a global research network to evaluate online learning and digital learning and how they impact the role of the university in society.

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Report: Most Teachers Use Social Media, Worry It Will Cause Conflict

By Joshua Bolkan, THE Journal

Eighty percent of K-12 teachers use social media for personal or professional reasons, yet the same number worry about conflicts that may arise with their students or their parents as a result, according to a new survey from the University of Phoenix College of Education. “Students are engaged daily in social media, so it presents a great way to connect with them,” said Kathy Cook, director of educational technology for University of Phoenix College of Education, in a prepared statement. “Social media can also help tie classroom learning to real-world scenarios, which can enhance student learning. Many teachers see the value of using these tools in the classroom, but may be reluctant to engage without clear guidelines and training.”

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