Bright Hub. The Education hub at BrightHub.com strives to provide informational articles and quality discussions about the many facets of the educational process including the technology and policies affecting today’s schools and universities. In addition, we look at how technology has brought learning out of the classroom and into the home, making continuing education and home schooling accessible to many millions of learners. Today, schools are using long-distance learning labs that let one instructor teach the same course to many schools simultaneously. Special education has moved into the mainstream. Changes in educational policies and advances in technology have allowed students with disabilities more integration into regular curriculums. Technology has opened the doors for many to continue their education. Language learning and technology continue to impact the issues that face today’s public schools.
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The decline is the smallest the segment has seen in the last seven quarters. By Joshua Bolkan04/16/14 Report Spotlights Problems with Virtual School Data Virtual K-12 enrollments in Michigan have surged in the last three years while completion rates have declined slightly. But beyond that, according to a new report, little insight can be gleaned about the effectiveness of virtual schools owing to the poor quality of data reported to the state. By David Nagel04/16/14 BrainParade Updates Special Needs App The visual learning and assessment tool now offers student data tracking, an automatic exercise generator that simplifies the lesson-creation process and an interactive wizard that demonstrates each feature of the app.
By Christopher Piehler04/16/14. Educational Technology in Context: The Big Picture. Publishers Ed Tech Cluster.