SETDA corporate partners and event sponsors conduct research and publish white papers regularly as they create, update and modify their goods and services.
Desire2Learn’s ePortfolio is a powerful, yet intuitive platform for collecting, organizing, reflecting, and presenting learning artifacts. ePortfolios have generated much interest and discussion on their potential impact on education providing a mechanism for users to demonstrate their level of knowledge, skill attainment, and knowledge through a variety of mediums and assessments. ePortfolios are becoming central teaching and learning channels which are user centered and outcome based promoting lifelong learning and educational advancement as a whole. This ePortfolio overview describes their benefits, impact on education and the issues associated with their implementation. Click here to review the whitepaper on Desire2Learn’s ePortfolio. Click here review the complete feature on Desire2Learn’s ePortfolio.
ENA - The world has changed dramatically in the last decade and continues to change at an accelerated speed. Not only is technical information changing rapidly, but the delivery and access to that information is changing too. Networks have changed from passive platforms for data applications to active participants in the delivery of 21st century education. Today’s networks have become the new platform for education delivery.
ENA’s white paper Networked for Learning explores a new model of education delivery called networked education. Through networked education, students’ worlds are expanded to meet the exponential rate of change in the 21st century.
ENA invites you to view the complete feature, Networked for Learning (Click Here).
Desire2Learn - The Desire2Learn Learning Environment 8.2 provides unparalleled flexibility by enabling K12 schools, school boards, and departments of education to easily manage their courses, schools, professional development programs, and other specialized programs with ease and efficiency while providing the student with an engaging, interactive and user-friendly interface. Click here to review the complete feature on Desire2Learn Learning Environment 8.2.
PLATO Learning - Straight Curve™ Mathematics is a teacher-facilitated supplemental curriculum designed to enhance the teaching and learning of math in grades K–6.
Based on international best practices for math instruction, Straight Curve Mathematics provides rigorous lessons that bring challenging concepts to life in the everyday classroom, bringing additional depth to the textbook curriculum. Straight Curve Mathematics is designed to help teachers to teach the concepts students find most challenging, identifying and addressing students’ common misconceptions by helping to develop student thinking at a conceptual level.
Straight Curve Mathematics content is aligned to standards in all 50 states and is mapped to the NCTM Focal Points and the nation’s top textbooks for easy, flexible integration into the classroom. Click here to review the complete feature on PLATO's Straight Curve Mathematics.
Intel® Education is pleased to announce release of an improved version of the research-proven Intel® Teach Essentials Course www.intel.com/education/teach. Essentials Course version 10 curriculum includes a new focus on standards-aligned assessment for learning, curriculum-framing questions for higher-order thinking, and engagement of collaborative learning technologies (wikis, blogs). Available now for schools nationwide, teacher time is reduced to 32 hours (formerly 40 hours). Even more exciting is the upcoming release of the hybrid online version, reducing face-time to 14 hours (plus 26 hours online). Featured at NECC and the SETDA Emerging Technologies Forum, the online version provides flexibility to complete the course anywhere, anytime. Click here to review the complete feature on the New Intel® Teach Essentials Course Intel® Teach Essentials Course.
Discovery Education Science Connection is the new online supplemental science toolkit from a trusted content source. Enhance your district’s middle-school science classrooms with up-to-date, standards-based resources including full-length videos and segmented clips, virtual labs, integrated science simulations, explorations, and reading passages, plus a unique real-time assessment component, all in a flexible online format that addresses different learning styles. Teachers save time because the extraordinary resources are all in one toolkit. Students stay interested through inquiry-based learning, and deepen their understanding of scientific processes and concepts. Bring your curriculum to life and powerfully engage today’s technology-savvy students with Discovery Education Science Connection. Click here to view the complete feature on Science Connection.
