By: Amel Ben Abdesslem, PhD
08/14/2019 on Faculty Focus
…. I’ve found that Turnitin Feedback Studio for online submissions is a tremendous help. Rather than rely on my own instincts, I check the similarity score of submitted papers and investigate in more detail if the score is too high…Read full article here.
By Tawnell D. Hobbs
08/12/2019 on Wall Street Journal
As the school year starts off, colleges and high schools are increasing steps to spot and fight a persistent form of cheating in which students find someone online to do their homework…Read full article here.
By Marilyn de Villiers
07/25/2019 on itWeb
….Those were some of the findings to emerge from a study of US-based education, government and healthcare organisations that was undertaken this year by project management company TeamDynamix on behalf of ProjectManagment.com. The research and publication of the White Paper based on its findings was endorsed by the international Project Management Institute (PMI)….Read full article here.
By: Derek Newton
07/18/2019 on eLearningIndustry
…Then along comes SAM Labs. The company already makes successful coding and STEM education products for early grades, but was preparing a new product, one for grades four through eight— precisely the micro:bit audience [1]. Their goal is to help teachers deliver STEM-related lessons with confidence so, rather than wall off their new product, SAM Labs designed it specifically to work with products such as micro:bit, which teachers may already know…Read full article here.
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07/22/2019 on The Pie News
“This latest investment will allow us to bring our STEAM and coding experiences to even more schools and teachers and students in the US, which is our largest market, as well as across the globe,” said SAM Labs CEO and founder Joachim Horn…Read full article here.
…He wants to use the new funding to provide more training and resources to help teachers explore the full use of his kits, which allow students to design, write, build and debug programs wirelessly. Students and teachers have built kaleidoscopes, xylophones and motorized bridges…Read full article here.
By Michelle R. Davis
07/15/2019 on EdWeek Market Brief
“This latest investment will allow us to bring our STEAM and coding experiences to even more schools and teachers and students in the U.S., which is our largest market, as well as across the globe,” said Joachim Horn, CEO and co-founder of SAM Labs..Read full article here.
…On Monday, the London-based company SAM Labs announced it had raised $8.9 million from a group of investors in a Series A2 round. The equity round comprises funding from Hans Wackwitz of Partners in Equity and Inventures Investment Partners’ Olivier de Duve. The round brings SAM Labs’ total VC funding to $19.8 million…Read full article here.
By Sam Mire
07/10/2019 on Disruptor Daily
…In this interview, we speak with Arjun Singh, who served as CEO and co-founder of Gradescope prior to its acquisition by Turnitin. He now serves as the Vice President of STEM products and technologies at Turnitin. He helps us to understand how his company is using AI to transform education, and what the future of the education industry holds…Read full article here.
By Rhea Kelly
06/26/2019 on Campus Technology
Academic integrity solution provider Turnitin has partnered with admissions platform Kira Talent to offer a plagiarism checking solution for admissions applications…Read full article here.
June 19, 2019 on Class Tech Tips
…Learn to Code from SAM Labs provides teachers with 50 comprehensive STEAM lesson plans that can help you jump in right away. Using a combination of physical blocks and a Learn-Do-Reflect sequence, students will have a hands-on opportunity to learn the essentials of coding…Read full article here.
…In a partnership with CORE, which aggregates and layers access tools on top of its growing collection of research papers, Turnitin’s proprietary web crawler will search through CORE’s database — some 135 million metadata records from more than 3,700 data providers — to check for text similarity…Read full article here.
By Matthew Lynch
05/20/2019 on Edvocate
The research from HDI, commissioned by TeamDynamix, found that despite resource constraints, education IT staff, along with information technology staffers in government and healthcare continue to lead the way in knowledge management, process controls, and other steps towards what is called “maturity” with respect to IT service management…Read full article here.
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…But perhaps most importantly, adaptive testing can begin to crack psychometrics – the practice of measuring the way people think. With the right assessment construction, adaptive techniques can measure mindsets and skills as well as acquired knowledge…Read full article here.
