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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term. A way to help impatient college students better connect to jobs American adjuncts earn a median of $3,700 per course , an amount that has declined significantly when adjusted for inflation, the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, says.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

Neo LMS

If e-learning came to life as a method to augment face-to-face learning, it is now an approach to education that is bigger than the traditional method it was meant to support. This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in e-learning.

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How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S.

eSchool News

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. Thus, each student learns by trial and error, proceeding further up on the learning ladder only when they have fully mastered the rung below.

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Colorado hybrid school taps into personalized learning

eSchool News

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. but rather ‘What do these individual students need to learn today?’”. Achievement increasing by up to 240 percent in math and reading.