Each day, as students enter my biology classroom, someone will inevitably ask the question, “What are we doing today?” My response always attempts to shift their frame of thought from the ...

The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

It's not a new question, but it's certainly a divisive one -- how to best measure student learning. As the Department of Education works toward finding a way to assess student learning beyond what ...

We know the assessments used in face-to-face classrooms are not always practical or impactful in remote learning. Thus, the question: How do we assess what our students have learned in distance and ...

Two initiatives -- FLEXspace and the Learning Space Rating System -- are developing ways to review and share designs for active learning spaces. In the late 1980s, Stanford University's (CA) writing ...

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically ...

There is something simple (not easy) that most providers and buyers of Smart learning services fail to maximise the value of. They miss the opportunity to benefit from using baseline measurements to ...

Colleges have increased the number of ways they assess their students’ learning, but their use of the data to inform changes in curriculum has not kept pace, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The details have arrived: About four months after issuing a preview edition of the NMC Horizon Report for higher education, Educause has published the full report. This is the first publication to be ...

Colleges, meanwhile, continue to search for that elusive value-added measure, which, however flawed, can lead to better teaching. "We should not be afraid of a culture of self-scrutiny on campus, but ...