eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. The practice is one in which the teacher of record delivers whole-class learning virtually, and an in-person monitor—often a substitute teacher—tracks behavior and ensures students do their work.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The teachers get dashboards that help them keep track of these multiple paths that all of these students are on, and are able to do focused interventions for the students who are still struggling, even if the interventions on Khan Academy aren't fully meeting their needs, they can have one-on-one time, small group times. Can you write well?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

This is a major barrier that prevents faculty from accepting the legitimacy and potential benefits of online learning. However, other faculty have found that online classes open more opportunities to build relationships with students, as communications are not confined to a time and place.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities. In 2015, after working with other tech partners, 2Revolutions decided to build its own social learning platform from scratch.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Some in the group have independently started a WhatsApp group to continue conversations about school and work beyond the classroom. COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING. She’s excited by the leadership and organizational skills she has learned, including how to manage the group of women she’s working with to create the zine.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. Via Business Insider : “Online learning may be the future of education – we compared 4 platforms that are leading the way.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

But, in general, students work at their own pace through worksheets, online lessons and small-group discussions with teachers. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. The rise of online learning has accelerated it, and school technology providers have been fierce advocates.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But other times, the scenes that were captured were taken out of context or these videos were purposefully weaponized (by conservative groups, for example, who encourage students to film their professors’ lectures and submit their names to “watch lists”). CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”. They want them at school learning.

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