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Can one teacher’s or tutor’s hardwork benefit others? Leveraging our “Follow” feature for educational content.

By Raju Gupta On August 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In Content, Education: General, Socrato, Socrato: Announcements, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
One of the interesting features of Twitter is the ability to “follow” anyone and then listen to their tweets. Effectively the person you are following becomes the “filter” for you for certain types of content and information.  You receive immediate updates on what’s going on. While working with a number of teachers and tutors, we [...]
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Changing law to increase number of charter schools – Is it to get money or to bring change?

By Raju Gupta On July 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In Education: General
Recently there has been a lot of coverage about Charter Schools in Massachusetts.  So I dug little deeper… What are charter schools? An innovative approach towards school and education management They are public schools, funded by government money They can be under district management or state management Another interesting aspect is that, when a student [...]
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According to Dept. of Edu. Study – Blended courses (online and face-to-face instruction) are the best.

By Raju Gupta On July 8, 2009 · Add Comment · In Education: General, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
According to US Department of Education study students who took “blended” courses — those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction — appeared to do best of all. The study finds this after detailed review of 51 high quality research reports out of over 1000 research studies. Looking at in detail, the key [...]
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Interesting articles on Educational data analysis, usage and access

By Raju Gupta On June 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Teaching
How Data analysis is helping raise performance – story covers both good and the bad Educational data is in abundance – but not in very useful state. Education Week: Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to online casinos Use  Impact of providing detailed and real time access to student educational and learning data to [...]
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Future of educational assessment and student data

By Socrato Admin On September 3, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Assessments, Education: General
In an interesting article from Dr. Mostafa Mehrabani – McGraw Hill Assessment and Reporting President, he shares his thoughts about the future of educational assessment and reporting. Looking at the trends, I believe the underlying shift in education (and the impact of technology on it) is going to be bigger than Dr. Mostafa’s article projects. [...]
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Solving the Testing and Assessment Problem

By Socrato Admin On September 2, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Education: General
When will educational institutions learn to use technology the right way?!  It seems like every other day I come across examples where technology is used for the sake of using technology instead of solving the actual problem.  Upon reading this article the first question that came to my mind – Did each student even have [...]
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