The document provides an overview of HMH's Radiant, Learning Village, and DataDirector products. Radiant is positioned as an end-to-end learning solution that connects components like LMS, curriculum management, assessment, analytics, and professional development. Learning Village is a curriculum management solution for enhancing teaching and learning. DataDirector is positioned as a comprehensive assessment and data management system. Scenarios are then provided showing how the different products could be pitched to potential clients with various needs.
RGS is an education technology solutions provider that aggregates partners to provide customized 1:1 learning solutions for K-12 schools, including devices, infrastructure, software, training, and support. Their target market is school districts looking to incorporate digital technology. RGS focuses exclusively on K-12 education and offers tailored professional development and support to differentiate their comprehensive solutions. Their strategy is to emphasize the completeness of their solutions and services over price competition. Competition includes device manufacturers, resellers, and independent software vendors, but RGS focuses on their services and ability to represent multiple partners and products.
The document provides information about updates to North Carolina's curriculum and instruction from meetings held in October 2012. It discusses the implementation of an instructional improvement system to improve student learning through increased access to high quality resources and relevant data. Key components of the system include learner profiles, standards, instructional design and resources, assessment, and professional development. The system will be piloted in the fall of 2012 and phased in over the 2013-14 school year.
The Alliance program by EdisonLearning provides K-12 schools with a comprehensive partnership solution to improve student achievement. It combines research-based tools and strategies with on-site support teams to help schools meet their goals. The program addresses leadership development, teaching effectiveness, data analysis, and curriculum to build schools' capacity to deliver better education. It aims to align with federal accountability mandates around teacher quality, college and career readiness, and improving low-performing schools.
A presentation given at the Institute for Higher Education 2015 in Florida on using assistive technology, performance technology, and universal design for learning to increase academic outcomes in a multi-tiered system of supports.
Fully online professional development options for teachers are available through Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 in PA. These asynchronous courses were developed to assist in improving instructional practices in alignment with the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Educator Effectiveness.
The document discusses Radiant, an education technology solution that aims to provide transparency of student data, meaningful assessment, and effective teaching through integrated curriculum management, analytics, learning management, assessment, and student information system tools. Radiant seeks to address the US Department of Education's grand challenge of establishing an end-to-end real-time system for managing learning outcomes and costs across all levels of education.
Radiant - Planning for tomorrow begins todayWendy Colby
Radiant is a new end-to-end learning solution that connects all aspects of the education system, including the student information system, curriculum management, learning management, assessment, grades, analytics, and professional development. It uses data and technology to provide personalized instruction for students and tools to help teachers improve practices. Radiant aims to improve student achievement by facilitating engaging learning experiences, accountability, and collaboration.
RGS is an education technology solutions provider that aggregates partners to provide customized 1:1 learning solutions for K-12 schools, including devices, infrastructure, software, training, and support. Their target market is school districts looking to incorporate digital technology. RGS focuses exclusively on K-12 education and offers tailored professional development and support to differentiate their comprehensive solutions. Their strategy is to emphasize the completeness of their solutions and services over price competition. Competition includes device manufacturers, resellers, and independent software vendors, but RGS focuses on their services and ability to represent multiple partners and products.
The document provides information about updates to North Carolina's curriculum and instruction from meetings held in October 2012. It discusses the implementation of an instructional improvement system to improve student learning through increased access to high quality resources and relevant data. Key components of the system include learner profiles, standards, instructional design and resources, assessment, and professional development. The system will be piloted in the fall of 2012 and phased in over the 2013-14 school year.
The Alliance program by EdisonLearning provides K-12 schools with a comprehensive partnership solution to improve student achievement. It combines research-based tools and strategies with on-site support teams to help schools meet their goals. The program addresses leadership development, teaching effectiveness, data analysis, and curriculum to build schools' capacity to deliver better education. It aims to align with federal accountability mandates around teacher quality, college and career readiness, and improving low-performing schools.
A presentation given at the Institute for Higher Education 2015 in Florida on using assistive technology, performance technology, and universal design for learning to increase academic outcomes in a multi-tiered system of supports.
Fully online professional development options for teachers are available through Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 in PA. These asynchronous courses were developed to assist in improving instructional practices in alignment with the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Educator Effectiveness.
The document discusses Radiant, an education technology solution that aims to provide transparency of student data, meaningful assessment, and effective teaching through integrated curriculum management, analytics, learning management, assessment, and student information system tools. Radiant seeks to address the US Department of Education's grand challenge of establishing an end-to-end real-time system for managing learning outcomes and costs across all levels of education.
Radiant - Planning for tomorrow begins todayWendy Colby
Radiant is a new end-to-end learning solution that connects all aspects of the education system, including the student information system, curriculum management, learning management, assessment, grades, analytics, and professional development. It uses data and technology to provide personalized instruction for students and tools to help teachers improve practices. Radiant aims to improve student achievement by facilitating engaging learning experiences, accountability, and collaboration.
This document outlines market requirements for an integrated education solution from the district, state, and federal level. The core requirement areas include content/curriculum management, gradebook/learning management, online learning, assessment and data analytics, online professional development, measurement of teacher effectiveness, and student information management. Some specific requirements mentioned are supporting standards-based curriculum, personalized instruction, online courses, longitudinal student data analysis, online teacher professional development tracking, and parent access to student performance data. Federal initiatives like Race to the Top and the National Education Technology Plan also aim to address issues like standards, teacher effectiveness, low-performing schools, and developing a real-time integrated education data system.
Radiant is an end-to-end learning solution with several integrated modules, including a student information system, curriculum management, learning management, assessment, gradebook, analytics, and professional development. The solution provides tools to manage student data, curriculum, online learning, assessments, grades, analytics, and teacher professional development. It aims to connect all components of the education system to support better teaching and drive student achievement.
Introduction to Radiant - Market Opportunity and Value Positioning Wendy Colby
The document discusses creating new approaches to education through innovation and technology. It introduces Radiant Vision, an integrated instructional platform that facilitates connections between students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Radiant Vision provides comprehensive solutions including content management, assessment, instruction, reporting, and professional development. The platform represents a significant market opportunity as most school districts currently do not use such integrated systems. It has the potential to differentiate HMH education and transform it into a full-service solutions provider.
The document discusses Radiant's pricing and demonstration process. It provides an overview of Radiant's core modules and pricing, which ranges from $5-$8 per student per year. It also reviews the services offered to implement Radiant solutions. Three sample customer scenarios are presented where districts are looking for specific solutions that can be achieved through combinations of Radiant modules. The demonstration process is outlined, including qualifying prospects and determining the focus of the demo based on the district's needs and decision makers present.
The document provides information on potential early customers for Radiant's education technology solution, including account visions, funding sources, and implementation summaries for four school districts/departments. It discusses the vision for using the solution to address issues like curriculum planning time and student data transparency. Initial implementation summaries are given for projects in Puerto Rico, Chicago, Gwinnett County, and Richmond County schools.
CMM Direct is a direct marketing and lead generation company that has specialized in these services for 30 years. They use an integrated marketing approach combining traditional and electronic media. Their strategy evolves through ongoing research, analysis of results, and reacting quickly to changes. They also seek new technologies to refine results for clients. Their services include advertising, website development, social media marketing, PR, marketing plans, and analyzing effectiveness.
The document summarizes the methodology and key findings of a survey about internet usage in Brazil.
In 3 sentences:
The survey involved over 2,000 interviews across 143 Brazilian cities from April 27-28, 2010, with a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points. It found that 81.3 million Brazilians over age 12 access the internet, with the highest usage rates among those in classes AB, ages 12-15, and those with a college education. Popular methods for posting content online included social networks like Orkut and MSN, email, personal blogs, and posting videos on YouTube.
This document provides an overview and technical discussion of Membase. It begins with introducing Membase and how it allows both applications and databases to scale horizontally. The rest of the document discusses Membase architecture, deployment options, use cases, and a demo. It also briefly explores developing with Membase and the future direction of NodeCode, which will allow extending Membase through custom modules.
This document outlines market requirements for an integrated education solution from the district, state, and federal level. The core requirement areas include content/curriculum management, gradebook/learning management, online learning, assessment and data analytics, online professional development, measurement of teacher effectiveness, and student information management. Some specific requirements mentioned are supporting standards-based curriculum, data-driven personalized instruction, online courses, longitudinal student data reporting, online teacher professional development tracking, and tools to streamline administrative functions. The document also references the federal Race to the Top assurances and goals of the National Education Technology Plan around developing integrated education systems.
JMS is a Java messaging specification that defines a common way for Java programs to create, send, receive, and read distributed messages asynchronously in a loosely coupled manner. It provides a unified message API and simplifies portability between clients. Key concepts include connection factories, connections, sessions, message producers, destinations, message consumers, and messages. The JMS provider handles connections and destinations, while clients handle message production and consumption using sessions. ActiveMQ is an open source JMS provider that supports optional message scheduling functionality.
The document is a collection of advertisements for various consumer products including Sony Bravia televisions, Powerbar energy bars, Chapstick lip balm, Starburst candy, Axe body spray, and Gas-X antacid. The Sony ads promote new Bravia HDTV models for 2010 and emphasize their razor sharp picture quality. The Powerbar and Chapstick ads are billboards. The Starburst ads are scented magazine advertisements. The Axe and Gas-X ads appear in magazines as well.
The documents include promotional materials for various events and products:
1) A brochure, logo, ticket, and poster advertising the Atlantic City Gaming Expo in April 2009 with over 2,500 exhibitors, keynote speakers, manufacturer presentations, entertainment, and networking events.
2) Print ads, brochures, and billboards promoting new Sony Bravia high definition televisions with razor sharp pictures and advanced features.
3) A series of public service announcement posters against media bias using the slogan "Fox Lies".
4) Promotional materials for a Quentin Tarantino film festival including posters, a DVD collection packaging, and movie snack packaging.
Susan Fair Lieber is an artist who works in the medium of watercolor painting. She creates beautiful landscape and floral paintings, capturing delicate details through her skilled use of watercolor washes and brushstrokes. Her watercolors showcase her talent for realistically rendering nature in a fresh, vibrant style through the fluid yet precise qualities of watercolor as an artistic medium.
The document summarizes a presentation about integrating marketing automation (MA) software with customer relationship management (CRM) systems. It discusses trends in marketing technology, key considerations for integration like data sharing and functions, and assessing different systems. The presentation emphasizes using MA to improve CRM usage and adoption, eliminate lead leakage, and track multi-channel marketing campaigns through the sales pipeline in the CRM. Live Q&A was offered at the end to learn more.
This publication provides an overview on how to monitor and manage ESX/ESXi servers using Verax NMS (including the free Express edition available at http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/downloads - please read terms & conditions for limitations of the Express version). Its purpose is to highlight the most important topics related to setting up ESX/ESXi monitoring as well as application hosted within managed virtual machines (a MySQL database is used in this tutorial).
What Jersey Shore Can Teach Product ManagersTrevor Fox
The document discusses lessons that product managers can learn from the TV show Jersey Shore. It provides 26 observations from the show along with conclusions and questions that product managers should consider. Some key lessons include making products look appealing to customers, creating nicknames for products, understanding customer routines, differentiating products from competitors, controlling conversations around products, and following up with customers after initial contact. The overall message is that product managers can benefit by thinking about how to engage and relate to customers, just as the show's characters engage with their audience.
Webinar - How Marketing Automation can sales fall in love with CRMSalesfusion
SalesFUSION and Analyst firm, Gleanster present a compelling look at how a properly implemented marketing automation solution can dramatically improve CRM adoption and usage by Sales
The document promotes anti-aging skin care products from Wellness International Network. It describes several products including a cleanser, peel, wrinkle serum, eye cream, firming cream, night cream, and face lift treatment. Each product is said to hydrate skin, reduce wrinkles, lift skin, and have other anti-aging benefits. The document markets the products for reversing signs of aging in 30 days.
The document provides an overview of digital curriculum management strategies and case studies from school districts. It discusses four successful curriculum management strategies: 1) Mass migration, exemplified by Houston ISD developing over 200 course templates; 2) Jump started and crowd sourced, exemplified by Forsyth County providing teachers resources to structure their own courses; 3) Universal Design for Learning, exemplified by Bartholomew CSC developing resources to give students multiple ways to learn; and 4) Focused best practice, exemplified by Harford County creating best practice course templates. The document also provides details about curriculum management projects in Houston ISD and Harford County.
This document provides an overview of strategies for digital curriculum management. It discusses the benefits of using a digital curriculum management system over disparate systems. It then presents four strategies that districts have used successfully with the itslearning learning management system (LMS). The strategies are: 1) Mass migration, exemplified by Houston ISD developing over 200 course templates and loading publisher content. 2) Jump started and crowd sourced, exemplified by Forsyth County giving teachers freedom to develop customized courses. 3) Focused on best practices, exemplified by Harford building best practice courses and having teachers replicate them. 4) Universal design for learning, exemplified by Bartholomew using standards-aligned planners and multiple means of representation,
This document outlines market requirements for an integrated education solution from the district, state, and federal level. The core requirement areas include content/curriculum management, gradebook/learning management, online learning, assessment and data analytics, online professional development, measurement of teacher effectiveness, and student information management. Some specific requirements mentioned are supporting standards-based curriculum, personalized instruction, online courses, longitudinal student data analysis, online teacher professional development tracking, and parent access to student performance data. Federal initiatives like Race to the Top and the National Education Technology Plan also aim to address issues like standards, teacher effectiveness, low-performing schools, and developing a real-time integrated education data system.
Radiant is an end-to-end learning solution with several integrated modules, including a student information system, curriculum management, learning management, assessment, gradebook, analytics, and professional development. The solution provides tools to manage student data, curriculum, online learning, assessments, grades, analytics, and teacher professional development. It aims to connect all components of the education system to support better teaching and drive student achievement.
Introduction to Radiant - Market Opportunity and Value Positioning Wendy Colby
The document discusses creating new approaches to education through innovation and technology. It introduces Radiant Vision, an integrated instructional platform that facilitates connections between students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Radiant Vision provides comprehensive solutions including content management, assessment, instruction, reporting, and professional development. The platform represents a significant market opportunity as most school districts currently do not use such integrated systems. It has the potential to differentiate HMH education and transform it into a full-service solutions provider.
The document discusses Radiant's pricing and demonstration process. It provides an overview of Radiant's core modules and pricing, which ranges from $5-$8 per student per year. It also reviews the services offered to implement Radiant solutions. Three sample customer scenarios are presented where districts are looking for specific solutions that can be achieved through combinations of Radiant modules. The demonstration process is outlined, including qualifying prospects and determining the focus of the demo based on the district's needs and decision makers present.
The document provides information on potential early customers for Radiant's education technology solution, including account visions, funding sources, and implementation summaries for four school districts/departments. It discusses the vision for using the solution to address issues like curriculum planning time and student data transparency. Initial implementation summaries are given for projects in Puerto Rico, Chicago, Gwinnett County, and Richmond County schools.
CMM Direct is a direct marketing and lead generation company that has specialized in these services for 30 years. They use an integrated marketing approach combining traditional and electronic media. Their strategy evolves through ongoing research, analysis of results, and reacting quickly to changes. They also seek new technologies to refine results for clients. Their services include advertising, website development, social media marketing, PR, marketing plans, and analyzing effectiveness.
The document summarizes the methodology and key findings of a survey about internet usage in Brazil.
In 3 sentences:
The survey involved over 2,000 interviews across 143 Brazilian cities from April 27-28, 2010, with a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points. It found that 81.3 million Brazilians over age 12 access the internet, with the highest usage rates among those in classes AB, ages 12-15, and those with a college education. Popular methods for posting content online included social networks like Orkut and MSN, email, personal blogs, and posting videos on YouTube.
This document provides an overview and technical discussion of Membase. It begins with introducing Membase and how it allows both applications and databases to scale horizontally. The rest of the document discusses Membase architecture, deployment options, use cases, and a demo. It also briefly explores developing with Membase and the future direction of NodeCode, which will allow extending Membase through custom modules.
This document outlines market requirements for an integrated education solution from the district, state, and federal level. The core requirement areas include content/curriculum management, gradebook/learning management, online learning, assessment and data analytics, online professional development, measurement of teacher effectiveness, and student information management. Some specific requirements mentioned are supporting standards-based curriculum, data-driven personalized instruction, online courses, longitudinal student data reporting, online teacher professional development tracking, and tools to streamline administrative functions. The document also references the federal Race to the Top assurances and goals of the National Education Technology Plan around developing integrated education systems.
JMS is a Java messaging specification that defines a common way for Java programs to create, send, receive, and read distributed messages asynchronously in a loosely coupled manner. It provides a unified message API and simplifies portability between clients. Key concepts include connection factories, connections, sessions, message producers, destinations, message consumers, and messages. The JMS provider handles connections and destinations, while clients handle message production and consumption using sessions. ActiveMQ is an open source JMS provider that supports optional message scheduling functionality.
The document is a collection of advertisements for various consumer products including Sony Bravia televisions, Powerbar energy bars, Chapstick lip balm, Starburst candy, Axe body spray, and Gas-X antacid. The Sony ads promote new Bravia HDTV models for 2010 and emphasize their razor sharp picture quality. The Powerbar and Chapstick ads are billboards. The Starburst ads are scented magazine advertisements. The Axe and Gas-X ads appear in magazines as well.
The documents include promotional materials for various events and products:
1) A brochure, logo, ticket, and poster advertising the Atlantic City Gaming Expo in April 2009 with over 2,500 exhibitors, keynote speakers, manufacturer presentations, entertainment, and networking events.
2) Print ads, brochures, and billboards promoting new Sony Bravia high definition televisions with razor sharp pictures and advanced features.
3) A series of public service announcement posters against media bias using the slogan "Fox Lies".
4) Promotional materials for a Quentin Tarantino film festival including posters, a DVD collection packaging, and movie snack packaging.
Susan Fair Lieber is an artist who works in the medium of watercolor painting. She creates beautiful landscape and floral paintings, capturing delicate details through her skilled use of watercolor washes and brushstrokes. Her watercolors showcase her talent for realistically rendering nature in a fresh, vibrant style through the fluid yet precise qualities of watercolor as an artistic medium.
The document summarizes a presentation about integrating marketing automation (MA) software with customer relationship management (CRM) systems. It discusses trends in marketing technology, key considerations for integration like data sharing and functions, and assessing different systems. The presentation emphasizes using MA to improve CRM usage and adoption, eliminate lead leakage, and track multi-channel marketing campaigns through the sales pipeline in the CRM. Live Q&A was offered at the end to learn more.
This publication provides an overview on how to monitor and manage ESX/ESXi servers using Verax NMS (including the free Express edition available at http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/downloads - please read terms & conditions for limitations of the Express version). Its purpose is to highlight the most important topics related to setting up ESX/ESXi monitoring as well as application hosted within managed virtual machines (a MySQL database is used in this tutorial).
What Jersey Shore Can Teach Product ManagersTrevor Fox
The document discusses lessons that product managers can learn from the TV show Jersey Shore. It provides 26 observations from the show along with conclusions and questions that product managers should consider. Some key lessons include making products look appealing to customers, creating nicknames for products, understanding customer routines, differentiating products from competitors, controlling conversations around products, and following up with customers after initial contact. The overall message is that product managers can benefit by thinking about how to engage and relate to customers, just as the show's characters engage with their audience.
Webinar - How Marketing Automation can sales fall in love with CRMSalesfusion
SalesFUSION and Analyst firm, Gleanster present a compelling look at how a properly implemented marketing automation solution can dramatically improve CRM adoption and usage by Sales
The document promotes anti-aging skin care products from Wellness International Network. It describes several products including a cleanser, peel, wrinkle serum, eye cream, firming cream, night cream, and face lift treatment. Each product is said to hydrate skin, reduce wrinkles, lift skin, and have other anti-aging benefits. The document markets the products for reversing signs of aging in 30 days.
The document provides an overview of digital curriculum management strategies and case studies from school districts. It discusses four successful curriculum management strategies: 1) Mass migration, exemplified by Houston ISD developing over 200 course templates; 2) Jump started and crowd sourced, exemplified by Forsyth County providing teachers resources to structure their own courses; 3) Universal Design for Learning, exemplified by Bartholomew CSC developing resources to give students multiple ways to learn; and 4) Focused best practice, exemplified by Harford County creating best practice course templates. The document also provides details about curriculum management projects in Houston ISD and Harford County.
This document provides an overview of strategies for digital curriculum management. It discusses the benefits of using a digital curriculum management system over disparate systems. It then presents four strategies that districts have used successfully with the itslearning learning management system (LMS). The strategies are: 1) Mass migration, exemplified by Houston ISD developing over 200 course templates and loading publisher content. 2) Jump started and crowd sourced, exemplified by Forsyth County giving teachers freedom to develop customized courses. 3) Focused on best practices, exemplified by Harford building best practice courses and having teachers replicate them. 4) Universal design for learning, exemplified by Bartholomew using standards-aligned planners and multiple means of representation,
Blended Learning Implementation for Elementary SchoolsDreamBox Learning
Integrating blended learning into an existing curriculum can be both a difficult and beneficial task. Though it is a rapidly growing instructional model, the many different approaches to implementation can make finding the right solution can feel like going on a treasure hunt without a compass. Who better to lead you on your Blended Learning journey than education advocate, advisor, and author of Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World, Tom Vander Ark?
Attendees of yesterday’s webinar participated in an active discussion lead by Tom about best practices for implementing Blended Learning. Tom shared different approaches for blended learning implementation through an analysis of several elementary school case studies. He demonstrated how blended learning can improve teaching, benefit student learning, and assist in transitioning to the Common Core Standards. Tom covered the impact of gaining real-time data on each student’s progress and how this affects teaching methods and practices. He also provided a critical evaluation of adaptive learning tools at the core of successful blended learning models. Watch the webinar to learn how to distinguish which blended learning model(s) are appropriate for your students.
Quotes from the Session:
“Yes, that’s me…trying to get up to date with tech!! here in rural NH. Thank you for the advice!”
“We appreciate everything that you have shared!! I am finding that Blended Learning is a concept that needs to be embraced K-20!”
“Thanks for all the info and Caroline for links! Especially helpful to hear about pitfalls of buying devices with no clear plan”
The document provides an analysis of the opportunity for Project Phoenix, a proposed social learning platform. It introduces the team behind the project and recaps their mission/vision. Customer interviews with teachers, students, and parents provided feedback that was used to modify the initial business model. A market sizing analysis estimated the total addressable market for classroom software in India to be around $250 million, with a serviceable market of around $83 million for Project Phoenix. Next steps include building a higher quality prototype, creating a marketing page, finalizing an opportunity execution plan, and creating a personal business plan.
Student Success Plan Learner Relationship Management Tech Reviewshawngormley
The document describes the Student Success Plan (SSP), a software system and process designed to increase student retention, success, and graduation rates. SSP uses holistic counseling, web-based support tools, and interventions to identify and support at-risk students. It discusses how SSP was implemented at Sinclair Community College to increase retention rates, course success, GPA, and graduation rates. The document also provides an overview of the SSP technology, including its integration with other systems like SIS and how others can get involved or adopt SSP.
This document provides an overview for developing educator effectiveness systems. It discusses defining the construct of effective teaching, using multiple indicators of educator performance, developing a composite rating from these indicators, clarifying performance levels, building data analysis tools, improving instructional practice, and engaging stakeholders throughout the process. The goal is to create systems that fairly and reliably evaluate educators to improve student outcomes.
EduTools 2.0 is an updated comparison tool for learning management systems (LMS). It surveys key aspects of LMSs like portal functionality, communication tools, assessments, and pricing. The document discusses revising EduTools to address changing needs around ubiquitous technology, converging feature sets, and a focus on learning over learner management. It also explores related topics like personal learning environments, semi-permeable system borders, and interoperability. Authentication systems are similarly surveyed based on their functionality, user experience, pricing, support, and integration capabilities. The results will help inform LMS selection and improvement of comparison resources like EduTools.
This document outlines an agenda for a Global Education Partner Summit. It introduces InEdu, a Microsoft partner specialized in education technology solutions. InEdu offers an integrated student information system (SIS) and various other education products and services. The summit agenda covers an introduction to InEdu's Dynamics CRM-powered SIS, its integration with Office 365, and its value for both K-12 and higher education institutions. Attendees will learn about the SIS's teacher, student, and parent portals and how it manages key functions like admissions, scheduling, grading, and finances. The presentation also explores latest education technology trends and how the SIS and InEdu's solutions address these through mobility, collaboration,
This chapter discusses the importance of systemic change with technology through strategic partnerships and personnel. It emphasizes:
1) Analyzing student data to improve learning and guide changes
2) Partnering within the district and community to support innovative practices
3) Hiring and evaluating technology-savvy teachers and using data and emerging tools to improve performance.
This chapter discusses the importance of systemic change with technology through strategic partnerships and personnel. It emphasizes:
1) Analyzing student data to improve learning and guide changes
2) Partnering within the district and community to support innovative practices
3) Hiring and evaluating "tech-savvy" teachers and using technology to develop them.
2. Evaluation design of the cofimvaba ict4 red initiative - Bridge 2014 versionBenita Williams
This presentation was delivered to the Monitoring and Evaluation Colloquium of Bridge on 12 August 2014. It is based on a paper delivered at the SAMEA 2013 conference by Williams, Marais and Rampa
Future Ready Education: Unleashing Innovation To The EnterpriseDell World
Educators are increasing student technology access to modernize the learning environment. While much focus is on the device, a successful initiative requires a secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure that empowers access anytime and anywhere. Hear how Dell is helping Public Schools design and deploy the right investments to keep learning time productive, safe, secure and fun.
1. California is phasing in K-12 distance learning programs to meet student needs, standardize quality, and save costs. It started with high school courses and plans to expand to other grades.
2. Phase I involves piloting course management systems and vendor content. Courses are supplemental and often blended with online and in-person instruction. Popular vendors include Odysseyware, Pearson, and Aventa.
3. Future phases include training teachers to modify vendor content and develop their own lessons using open resources, moving to a blended model with less reliance on vendors.
Empower Educators_ Transforming Teaching with Dynamic Test Creators - Qorrect...qorrectdm
The Digital Imperative in Education
The transition towards digitalization in the educational sector marks a pivotal shift in how teaching and learning are conducted. This shift is driven by a recognition of the limitations of traditional educational methods and the vast potential of technology to enhance the educational experience.
Leading Complex District Transformation Efforts: Integrating Research, Performance Management and Evaluation to Ensure Quality. A presentation about Partners in School Innovation's beliefs on how to transform districts and how the organization uses research and evaluation to measure effectiveness and ensure quality of implementation. Presented at the Fall 2014 Conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness in Washington DC.
Technology Integration in the Classroom - A case study in learning engagement...William Welder
This presentation, presented at the Houston Association of Talent Development (ATD) 2014 conference highlights two case studies in which training practitioners take a creative approach to leverage existing technologies for business results.
Session Objective:
* Dispel common concerns around technical training assessment.
* Repurpose existing learning resources for extended use in the organization.
* Identify methods to drive engagement in the classroom.
* List reporting and analytics critical for compliance management and continuous improvement.
* Outline considerations for systems integration projects.
* Overcome obstacles to training delivery and management.
This document outlines plans for a pilot learning management system (LMS) project at a company to help advance its talent management strategies. The project aims to gain experience using an LMS, understand its impact, and prepare for enterprise-wide rollout. Key steps include designing and testing the LMS with pilot courses for 200 users, and evaluating results to decide next steps. Risks like unclear responsibilities and lack of user preparedness are identified. Change management is seen as critical, starting small and communicating the benefits of the LMS.
AI-powered
conversational agent to
enhance the student
experience.
Blackboard Open LMS:
An open source learning
platform that brings together
the best of open source and
enterprise capabilities.
Blackboard Learn:
The most widely used
learning management
system in the world.
Blackboard Services:
We make Blackboard work
for you.
Blackboard Analytics:
Actionable insights to
improve outcomes and
optimize resources.
Blackboard Ally:
Accessibility tool that
produces accessible
formats for all learners.
Blackboard Collaborate:
Web conferencing for online
and blended learning.
Blackboard Open Content
-Provide an overview of the Future Ready Process
-Share related resources and assessment questions
-Share how this process aligns with concurrent initiatives
-Discuss how this process improves collaboration amongst the
leadership team.
Similar to Radiant Solution Profile - Comparing Product Functionality - Learning Village and Data Director (20)
2. Breakout Objective
This session will ensure the teams understand product functionality in
comparison to other HMH solutions (Learning Village/Data Director)
This will include:
• Positioning Articulation
• Product Functionality
• Customer Scenarios
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3. Radiant - Product Overview
Positioning:
Radiant is an end-to-end learning solution that “connects” all critical
components of the education ecosystem such as Learning
Management, Curriculum Management, Professional
Development, Assessment, Analytics, SIS and Grade book.
Each of the modules operates independently or as part of an
integrated holistic solution to improve instructional practices and
learning outcomes.
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SIS Analytics PD
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4. Radiant - Product Overview
Key Product Differentiators:
• Flexible, Modular Interconnected Components
• End-to-End Solution for Teachers, Administrators, Parents, and
Students
• Learning Management integrated with Assessment
• Assessment integrated with SIS, Grade book, and Analytics
• SIS with student data tracking, scheduling and grade reporting
• Online Professional Development and Teacher Effectiveness tools
• Collaboration and Social Learning Tools for the classroom
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5. Learning Village - Product Overview
Positioning:
Learning Village is our robust curriculum management solution that
enhances the teaching and learning experience by connecting
educators to the best practices, instructional strategies, lesson
plans, and resources that enable measurable student achievement.
From one central portal, educators tap into a wealth of web-based
curricula, and collaborate in the broader district-wide learning
community.
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6. Learning Village - Product Overview
Key Product Differentiators:
• Robust Curriculum Management and Collaboration portal
• Aggregates /organizes resources for teachers and administrators
• Flexibility and Control in curriculum design
• Peer Review process for approving best practices
• Collaboration around curriculum
• Instructional Portal with Single Sign On access to 3rd party
products
• Curriculum and Standards Reports
Learning
• Automated alignment with Common Core
Village
Data District
Director 3rd party Curriculum
application
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7. DataDirector - Product Overview
Positioning:
DataDirector is a comprehensive assessment and data
management system that provides educators with a fast, powerful
decision-support system for instructional planning.
• Educators can manage assessments and utilize a full suite of
prebuilt reports detailing student performance toward state and
Common Core standards.
• Educators can design their own reports including multiple data
points over time for in-depth analysis and progress monitoring.
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8. DataDirector- Product Overview
Key Product Differentiators:
• Full suite of assessment management capabilities enabling
districts to execute assessment program at the district-, school-,
and classroom-level
• Optional Asssess2Know district and classroom item banks
• Open-content platform enabling districts to capture student results
for textbook assessments and upload results from state-developed
and published assessments
• Prebuilt reports for local, state-developed, and some published
assessments (ie., DIBELS)
• Dynamic ad hoc reporting capabilities for longitudinal reporting
across multiple data points
• Nightly uploads of various data from SIS to refresh rosters and pull
in data relevant to decision-making
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9. DD and LV - Product Overview
Positioning:
• HMH’s robust suite of curriculum management, data analytics and
assessment solutions empower teaching and learning. Learning
Village is the digital hub and entry point for accessing all of a district’s
curriculum and instruction directly from the teacher desktop. In one
central location, educators have access to standards-aligned
curriculum , professional development and assessment. School
districts, therefore, have a unified approach to instruction across the
entire education ecosystem – enabling collaboration and knowledge
sharing and a consistent and rigorous approach to instruction.
• With single sign-on accessLearning Village links directly to Data
Director, a data analysis, reporting and assessment solution that
helps educators access student assessment results, identify
struggling students, and make real-time adjustments in instruction.
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10. Scenario 1: Which do you pitch to win?
Client has an SIS and a grade book program.
They are happy with SIS and somewhat
happy with Grade book. They are looking for
one solution that can provide an LMS that
can manage student assessment and
integrate with their Grade book so teachers
don’t have to populate every assignment in
the Grade book.
What if they are looking for Content Management
instead of LMS?
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11. Scenario 2: Which do you pitch to win?
• RFP – Large district has existing enterprise portal
with SIS, LMS and data warehouse and is looking for
best of breed curriculum management and
assessment management solutions to integrate with
their portal.
• Bidders can respond with one or both solutions.
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12. Scenario 3: Which do you pitch to win?
RFP
• Enrollment and Tracking
• Skill Assessment/Learning Evaluation
• Content Access
• Administrative/Reporting
• Content Development
• Marketing and Communications
• Security
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13. Scenario 4: Which do you pitch to win?
• District uses Blackboard for their
Learning Management Solution, but
wants more control over the quality of the
lessons shared among teachers and
wants more control over the lesson
template to ensure consistency in lesson
design.
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14. Scenario 5: Which do you pitch to win?
The district is seeking a state of the art integrated Learning
Management System (LMS) which focuses on ensuring each and
every student learns to high standards and graduates on time from
high school. It is expected that the new LMS will:
• Be a web-based integrated software application, or a suite of
software applications
• Allow teachers and administrators to better manage instructional
practices to improve student achievement
• Integrate student information, curriculum, instruction, assessment,
grading, and professional development
• Monitor and report student progress on standards to teachers,
students and parents/guardians
• Facilitate communication with students, teachers, parents/guardians,
and administrators
• Empower data-driven decision making at all levels
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15. Scenario 6: Which do you pitch to win?
• District already has an SIS and LMS they are happy with and under
contract for
• District is in need of an assessment management system that will
enable them to manage and execute their local assessment
program
• District wants high-quality item bank they can use to build local
assessments, both for district-wide benchmarks and teacher-
created classroom exams
• District wants enhanced reporting capabilities so they can view
student results over time and in context with other assessments
and important information
Regardless of whether the customer is looking for an end-to-end solution, a module or best-of-breed content mgt or best-of-breed assessment and data mgt, HMH has a great set of solutions for our customers and you can feel confident about tool bag you’re carrying.