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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. So, last week I called one of my major sponsors – a distance learning professional development company – Advancement Courses. She received her M.Ed.

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6 Practical Blended Learning Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

To refresh your mind, blended learning is an educational approach that combines traditional classroom teaching methods with digital and online media. It aims to provide a more integrated learning experience, leveraging both face-to-face teacher guidance and the flexibility of online resources. Fabbian et al.’s

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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

Student-centered learning is here defined as curriculum and assignments that focus on a student’s unique needs and goals.[13] 13] Usually, these projects are completed by individual students rather than by a group or class. Blended learning includes a mix of whole-class and student-centered learning. Sources : Staker, H.,

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

She sometimes observes teachers, and other times helps children in small groups. Reach began in 2006 as a certification program for entry-level teachers who had a degree but still needed a credential. Ross, of Reach University, says his group plans to research whether its new teachers are effective and stay in their jobs.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with 'e's

I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners.

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Khan Academy Has Inspired Imitations Across Disciplines. MEDKSL is the Latest.

Edsurge

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. More than 60 universities around the world currently assign the site’s resources. “In In a lot of classrooms, our modules are becoming required learning,” Sharma says. “As