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Insights from CoSN Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity Winners

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He says, “We need to teach students the way they want to learn, not necessarily how we were taught.” Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004. He has expertise in strategic planning and leadership, designing digital learning environments, and technology infrastructure reviews. Dr. Ryan has a Ph.D.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning. Even though many had been using technology in the classroom, they were not ready for the full-on virtual digital learning environment COVID demanded. Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004. Student engagement suffered.

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Dog Introductions, Humanization and Other Ways Online Ed Can Better Serve Students

Edsurge

But it’s increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, even as digital learning makes its way into more institutions’ offerings. The quality of online courses still varies drastically, and research shows there are major racial disparities in digital-learning outcomes.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. All this makes it imperative for us to ask – in the formulation of this conference theme, certainly, but obviously well beyond this event – who is reconstituting technology-enhanced learning.