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11 Most “Wicked Awesome” Education Infographics I’ve Seen Lately

By Scott Cronenweth On November 7, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Education: General, General
Who doesn't love a good infographic?
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Global Private Tutoring Market to Exceed $100 Billion by 2018

By Scott Cronenweth On October 31, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Education: Industry, In The News, Teaching & Tutoring
According to a study just released by the market research firm Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA), the worldwide market for private tutoring is projected to grow beyond $102.8 billion by 2018.
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Top 5 Free Online Tutoring Tools

By Scott Cronenweth On October 23, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Education: Technology, Teaching & Tutoring
As online learning grows in importance and popularity worldwide, new tools are emerging to support it. Here are 5 free tools that enable tutors, teachers – or even just well-intentioned friends and relatives – to interact with learners over the Internet, no pens or paper required. 1: IDroo whiteboard for Skype Everybody already knows about [...]
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Internet Forums for Teaching Materials and Lesson Plans

By Scott Cronenweth On October 16, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Education: Technology, Resource
Besides saving other teachers time and money by giving them access to top-quality instructional aids, TeachersPayTeachers.com and similar sites also provide a supplementary source of income for teachers who sell lesson plans, student data sheets and other wares online. In a few cases the income has exceeded their teachers’ salaries.
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This Week is National College Affordability Week

By Scott Cronenweth On October 9, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Education: General, In The News
Total US student loan debt for borrowers in their twenties has more than doubled since 2005 – and now stands at almost $300 billion. (Total student loan balances have surpassed the well-publicized $1 trillion mark.) Likewise, the average twenty-something college student’s personal debt burden has also more than doubled in that timeframe, to almost $21,000. These days two out of three college graduates leave with loan debt, versus less than one out of three just ten years ago.
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Contract Grading

By Scott Cronenweth On October 2, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
Though it was introduced perhaps 30 years ago, contract grading has recently grown increasingly popular among (mostly) high school and university educators and students alike. There are two primary reasons for this trend. First, contract grading helps streamline the grading process and the questions and issues of subjectivity that go with it. Second, contract grading is increasingly perceived as facilitating both better teaching and better learning.
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Peer Assessment in MOOCs and Online Courses

By Scott Cronenweth On September 25, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Assessments, Education: Technology
MOOC type courses, such as those that leverage the Coursera platform, are inherently conceived to empower learners to educate each other, such as through posts and responses in course forums. This form of “crowd-sourced commentary” helps create a learning community – so why not build the community even further by empowering learners to evaluate one another?
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Student Peer Evaluation: Plusses and Minuses

By Scott Cronenweth On September 18, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Assessments, Education: Technology
With the rapidly growing popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and online education in general, peer evaluation by students is coming to the fore as a way to assess student performance in online courses.
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An Expanding Vision for First-Generation Learning Analytics

By Scott Cronenweth On September 11, 2012 · Add Comment · In Learning Analytics
Most learning analytics systems center on online learning scenarios, where software can collect the data automatically. Using activities that are part of the online learning process -- like logins, assignment completion, quiz scores and so on -- learning analytics seeks to analyze the “digital breadcrumbs” that students leave as they interact with the online learning environment (and potentially other online spaces, too, such as Facebook).
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4 Steps to Bring Learning Analytics to Online Education

By Scott Cronenweth On September 4, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Learning Analytics, Teaching & Tutoring
In the emerging research area of learning analytics, technologists and thought leaders are envisioning ways to reveal how engaged students are, how much they’re learning, and how to enhance the lessons going forward.
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