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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said.

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Persistence Is Not Always Productive: How to Stop Students From Spinning Their Wheels

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(The tool relied on publically released data from Carnegie Learning.) In another recent paper , published this April, researchers led by Anthony Botelho created a wheel-spinning detector using ASSISTments , a free online learning platform that my team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute developed for math education.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

The model is popular with older learners who want to finish a degree as fast as possible, and online delivery means they can do it in evenings and weekends, or around their work and family commitments. MASTERY-BASED LEARNING Another term for competency-based learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “What You Need to Know About Race-Conscious Admissions in 2017.” Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. ” More via Buzzfeed and The Chronicle of Higher Education.