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Simple Tech Solutions for Creating Community on Campus

When students are involved in on-campus activities, they are more engaged in their courses. A few simple tech tools that you’ve already heard of can make a big difference in student participation on campus.

4 days ago by EdCetera Staff

Learning

Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineers

The infusion of entrepreneurship into engineering programs at Lawrence Tech, Detroit, was supported by a grant from the Kern Family Foundation. According to Jim Rahn, president of the foundation, said Lawrence Tech “really embraced the program making it mission central.” Their goal is to prepare students “not ...

one month ago by Tom Vander Ark

Leadership

Campus Leadership: Susan Korzinek – “EdTech Leaders Must Be Open to Ideas”

With Edcetera's Campus Leadership profiles, learn about what makes CIOs, IT directors, and other executive level IT professionals tick. Here’s a Q&A with Susan K. Korzinek, Director of IT at Grand Valley State University.

2 months ago by EdCetera Staff

Learning

Book Review: Hacking Your Education

Dale Stephens of UnCollege.org took an untraditional route to end up where he is now. An entrepreneur, a Thiel Fellow, respected author, speaker, mentor, and much more. Who would have thought that he dropped out of school when he was twelve?

2 months ago by Katie Vander Ark

Learning

Next Generation Professional Training, Blending For-Me & For-Degree

Combining the benefits of anywhere, anytime interest-driven learning with standards-based learning is the design opportunity of our time. The explosion of anytime, anywhere learning is making new thought experiments possible. Even in professional education resulting in certification, it is possible to create pathways ...

2 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

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Compass Learning

Compass Learning provides educational software that empowers educators to unlock the potential of every student by making learning personal. We serve nearly 8,000 schools and millions of students across the United States.

EdTech

Lumina Shares Student Support Lessons

Lumina Foundation posted lessons learned from an 18 month long inquiry about ...

2 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

Strive for College Recognized as CNN Hero

As a college freshman, Michael Carter realized that many students had survived a more circuitous route to college than he had. He did some digging and found out that many prepared low income students don't enroll in four year college.

3 months ago by Tom Vander Ark