EdSurge Guides
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The EdSurge On Air Podcast
A weekly podcast about the future of education, featuring insightful conversations with educators, tech innovators and scholars, hosted by EdSurge's Jeffrey R. Young and Sydney Johnson.You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app, Spotify, Stitc...
Game-Based Learning: Preparing Students for The Future
SPONSORED BY Minecraft: Education EditionOne of the most effective ways to nurture the 21st century’s trademark skills is by creating opportunities for kids to do what kids do naturally: play. This educators’ guide is packed with resources for gaming gurus and greenhorns alike
New Year, New Learning: Reflections on Education in 2018 and Beyond
Each year, EdSurge asks thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs to reflect on the state of education technology, and share their thoughts on where it’s headed. We’re continuing that tradition again this year, but with an added twist: Writers from ...
Measuring Up: How Community Colleges Define, Measure and Support Student Success
Community colleges are a lever for upward mobility, but their achievements are less obvious when looking at national graduation rates. The EdSurge research team explores whether completion should be the barometer of success for community college students.
Finding the Right Talent in the Edtech World
Finding the right talent for your company can feel a bit like looking for a diamond in the rough. It can be difficult in the best of times. But, don't sweat! We’ve created this guide just for edtech recruiters and hiring managers who are ready to find ...
How to Score a Job in Edtech: Tips From Experts, Experienced Job Hunters and More
If you’re looking for a job in edtech, you’ve come to the right place! Whether you’re an edtech veteran looking for a new challenge or someone who’s looking to break into the edtech world, we’ve got you covered.In this guide, you’ll find a toolkit to h...
Toward Better Teaching: Office Hours With Bonni Stachowiak
A new EdSurge advice column about college teaching.
The World Is Watching: How YouTube Shapes Education
It’s our nostalgia trip, our on-demand highlight reel and our favorite internet rabbit hole. It’s YouTube, a place where we collectively spend more than a billion hours a day.Students are some of its most loyal eyeballs. They watch videos featuring vlo...
Social-Emotional Learning: Why It Matters and How to Foster It
SPONSORED BY NewselaFiguring out how and when to teach and assess SEL skills can be daunting. This guide is packed with questions to consider and techniques to try.
6 Key Trends to 21st Century Teaching
Teaching in the 21st century involves trying new ways to engage students, but also a willingness to change innovative practices that didn’t pan out. Here we take a look at how faculty are using new approaches in their classroom and what they have learned.
EdSurge’s Guide to Landing a Job (or Finding the Perfect Candidate)
Welcome to EdSurge's 2018 Jobs Guide! We want to help you find the job that will brighten your world and challenge you in positive ways. For many, getting involved in education can be the most meaningful professional work they've ever done.At the same ...
Innovations in Student Success: From Campus Collaboration to Tech Implementation
SPONSORED BY Salesforce.orgHigher-ed institutions are energizing new developments in student success. EdSurge highlights the importance of partnerships on and off campus, lessons learned from technology rollouts and the evolving role of academic advisors.
Reflections From 2017 for the Journey Ahead
What have we learned about the forces that shape education?As we enter a new year, there’s still plenty of growing up to do for the edtech community. Technology can create just as many problems as it solves, and 2017 found educators, entrepreneurs, wri...
EdSurge Live: A Town-Hall Style Video Forum
What Is Critical Digital Pedagogy, and Why Does Higher Ed Need It?There’s an ongoing narrative that robots, digital tools and new tech-enabled teaching methods are changing the way professors teach and students learn. But how do instructors keep agency...
A Lifetime of Back to School: Microcredentials in Higher Education
From universities to education companies, higher education providers today are increasingly offering microcredentials, and EdSurge set out to explore the landscape of these short-form online learning programs.
The Personalized Learning Toolkit
Think of your favorite students. Chances are they were engaged, creative, motivated. What was compelling about them? Did they have courage and tenacity to reach for the stars? Were they creative and so helped to keep the classroom interesting? Were th...
Putting It Into Words: The Future of Writing Instruction
SPONSORED BY TurnitinIt’s no surprise that as technology has infused education, it has also impacted the teaching of writing. So we’ve put our figurative pen to paper with the hope of highlighting what writing instruction looks like today, and how it might continue to evo...
Measuring Efficacy in Edtech
With more and more technology in the classroom, the quest to find tools that effectively help educators and their students becomes increasingly important—and increasingly difficult. How can educators best identify the products that meet their classroom...
The Future of Coding Bootcamps
Coding bootcamps have been on the rise, but with major players shutting their doors, EdSurge set out to answer questions about their viability, future and what traditional higher-ed can takeaway.
What Does It Take to Make Interoperability Work in K-12 Education?
Interoperability, defined dryly, is the seamless, secure and controlled exchange of data between different applications and technologies. The term is a mouthful, yet the concept enables many conveniences we take for granted. It allows, for instance, p...
