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Actionable advice for educators to move to online learning

Neo LMS

You’re getting comfortable with a new schedule, technology, and online grading. But, you still need a little help navigating the seas of e-learning. So, here’s actionable advice that you can use as a compass as you create a productive system for online learning. This is the future outlook of distance learning.

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Online learning can help schools retain students

eSchool News

An analysis by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools found that charter school enrollment increased by more than 7 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 as families found other alternatives for their children’s education. Choices in modality Although some students fell behind during the shift to remote learning, others thrived.

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Information Sharing at the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Digital Promise

Recently, I attended the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Portland, Oregon, hosted by NTEN , to catch up on the newest trends in educational technology (edtech) and learn about cutting-edge tools that may be integrated to boost adult learning and workforce development initiatives at Digital Promise.

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Why Mission — Not Money — Will Lead Colleges to Truly Innovative Online Learning

Edsurge

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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College Enrollment is Dropping: Here Are a Few Observations I’ve Made Talking to Recent High School Graduates

The CoolCatTeacher

percent from fall 2019 to fall 2021, representing a loss of just over a million students. percent fewer students than in 2019 enrolled directly in college from high school, and more than one in four students enrolled in college in 2019 did not return the following fall, the highest rate since 2012. In fall 2020, 20.7

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

Edsurge

For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. edtech companies in the first half of 2019. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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PROOF POINTS: Most college kids are taking at least one class online, even long after campuses reopened

The Hechinger Report

One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning. Even after campuses reopened and the health threat diminished, colleges and universities continued to offer more online courses and added more online degrees and programs.