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What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside 'Walled Gardens'?

Edsurge

Lots of sites require you to log in to gain access to content, right? It turns out he co-taught the very first one, back in 2008, with George Siemens, who is now the executive director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab at the University of Texas, Arlington. You might be thinking: What’s the big deal?

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How Inclusive Education Positively Impacts All Students : A drop in the ocean – by Sujatha Sriram

ViewSonic Education

While inclusive education is often associated only with students who have special educational needs such as disabilities or learning difficulties, inclusivity is about more than meets the eye. Why Inclusion in the Classroom is Necessary As the Right to Education Act 2008 states, every child has the right to education.

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Recovering From 2020 Requires Supporting Students, Starting With Their Basic Needs

Edsurge

Our research also shows that students were struggling to meet their basic needs before COVID-19, and our survey completed at the pandemic’s onset showed this only became worse. Despite having been here before, the 2008 recession resulted in little structural change to address these problems.

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Are We On Track? Part 2

Doug Levin

, I revisited the central prediction of the first edition of Disrupting Class (2008), which was that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet. For those without access to the original text, the Summer 2008 edition (Vol.

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

Digital Promise

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America’s national security and diplomacy. Teacher Shortage.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

10] They are less likely to believe face-to-face meetings (when possible) are the best way to discuss their students, and are more accepting of digital methods. Teachers should remember that not every family may be able to afford Internet access, so old-fashioned printed notes and bulletins still have a place in the student’s backpack.

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As businesses hunt for educated workers, states are loosening the purse strings for higher ed again

The Hechinger Report

Those few words also help explain a principal reason many states are boosting their budgets for public higher education more than at any time since 2008 and proposing even higher allocations down the road. billion below 2008 levels , or down an average of 13 percent per student, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports.