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The Role of Place in Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

According to a study by Tanner and Lackney (2006), the design of physical spaces significantly influences student engagement and academic performance. 2013; Hattie, 2012; Tanner & Lackney, 2006). Flexible seating arrangements, breakout spaces, and interactive learning corners empower students to take control of their learning.

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What Are Hyflex Classes? The Evolution of Higher Education

Neo LMS

In hyflex classes, all students have access to all materials created for the course at any time. In fact, hyflex classes were originally developed in 2006. He shared the concept in 2006 and laid out four principles for every hyflex class. Accessibility. All students have access at any time to all materials and classes.

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Science-backed scalable tools improve student mental health

eSchool News

Studies show that screening students for mental health functions serves as intervention and prevention of developing mental health issues (Desrochers, 2006). For example, a universal screening can be sent out to students via email, made accessible on school/college websites, and provided as a part of academic advising and counseling services.

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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

I also know that that I too have a lot to learn, even though I’ve been teaching online since 2006 and have collaborated globally for years. I was asked today if I’m sharing and certainly, I am. However, I want to share and talk more about this.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education to Acquire DreamBox Learning? 

eSchool News

Through this latest acquisition, Discovery Education is better positioned to broaden its impact on student success by providing our existing network of partner school systems access to DreamBox Learning’s collection of supplemental math, reading, and professional learning solutions.” Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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5 Ways to Create Relevant Cultures of Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Make no mistake about it – capturing the attention of students has become harder and harder because of the access that many of them have to knowledge, games, and each other through technology. The struggle is real as the former is sometimes emphasized as a result of a school or district’s focus. Ormrod, J.E. Upper Saddle River, N.J.:

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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices

Edsurge

We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm. But the idea of the flipped classroom is credited to Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams in 2006.