Doug Levin

JULY 12, 2017

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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. The practice is one in which the teacher of record delivers whole-class learning virtually, and an in-person monitor—often a substitute teacher—tracks behavior and ensures students do their work.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

Prioritize active digital activities, like online learning games or interactive lessons, over passive activities (like watching a video). AACE Journal, January 2008, 16(1), pp. Journal of Commerce and Instructional Technology, 2008, 8, pp.54-59. Sources : Groff, J., and Mouza, C. Levy, L.A. Retrieved from usc.edu: [link].

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Collaboration in blended learning environments leads to higher student satisfaction.[3] 3] Even if they are not meeting in person, you can provide students opportunities, such as online discussions, to collaborate. Consider how the physical and online learning spaces can complement each other.[9] Sources : Staker, H.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

Alan Miller, founder and outgoing CEO of the News Literacy Project In 2008, when Miller started the News Literacy Project following a visit to his daughter’s sixth grade class, he thought news literacy would be an important skill for students and educators in the age of burgeoning social media and smartphones.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2008, it was global experience. Since 2014, Salesforce has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop curriculum for Trailhead, its free online learning platform. The skills they want have also shifted. Today, organizations are struggling to find tech-savvy workers. Employers have two choices.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A 2008 state audit found that parents were pleased with how much they learned with these home visits. Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach. A virtual learning center is different than distance or online learning. Hughes emphasized, “This is not distance learning. Her answer: Do it virtually.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

“Then shift the conversation from online as a money-maker, to online as serving your mission,” Crews said. This moment could also herald a shift in how high school juniors and seniors view online learning options. Mark Warner (D-Va.),

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In the past several years, we have implemented a number of district-wide initiatives to support personalization and differentiation for students including the launch of our Virtual Instruction to Accentuate Learning (VITAL) program in 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

School budgets may well soon dip too, as they did following the last recession in 2008. Education officials have also noted that the first days of transitioning classes to online learning is not a good time to be trying new products —or reviewing company pitches.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. Tameka says she’s unaware of any outreach from Atlanta schools.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

Once students have created their avatar they can engage in curated group experiences such as visiting other countries without leaving the classroom, or their homes in the case of distance learning.

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Learning Confluence

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. Not wanting to bore you with too many details, I do want to share this little nostalgic journey with you… February 7, 2008 – What a way to turn the day around. An amazing educator in Colorado and prolific sharer of learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. As part of the arrangement, 2U also paid $13 million to Flatiron School, a coding bootcamp owned by WeWork, to use the school’s online learning platform.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning. After the 2008 recession, many men were laid off from manufacturing jobs and enrolled in college to retrain. The number of international students has plummeted almost 14 percent.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

A significant body of work has arisen around the Digital Natives and Immigrants theory, including descriptions of younger students as ‘the Net Generation’ (Tapscott, 1998), ‘Screenagers’ (Rushkoff, 1996), ‘Born Digital’ (Palfrey and Gasser, 2008), ‘Millennials’ (Oblinger, 2003), and ‘Homo Zappiens’ (Veen and Vrakking, 2006). 2008) Web 2.0

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

I have been a full-time remote professional for nearly 12 years, ever since I went from working at home a day or two a week to doing so full time in 2008. Humanizing remote work is just as important as humanizing online learning, but more on that later! Census Bureau and U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

The complaints allege breach of contract for making the switch from in-person to online instruction. But one of the things we've discovered is that the drop off (between face to face and online) is greatest for people who are first gen students, working class students, minority students. This speaks to another massive inequality.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

In 2008, iParadigms was acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. million in 2018), and has also invested in online learning company Everfi. They “could not raise money, so they got the company to break even very early,” said Turnitin CEO Chris Caren, who joined the company 10 years ago.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Don’t try to migrate an in-person experience into an online format. Surely a lot has changed!

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2015

A new paper by advocacy and policy org iNacol explores how blended learning is being used in practice and traces its history from 2008 to today. Students might rotate in the same physical classroom space, move to a computer lab, or independently switch activities based on personal learning goals.

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Learning With Lucie

DECEMBER 4, 2016

(Gmail was introduced in 2004 and Google Docs in 2008) I feel very fortunate to have been in some of those early conversations with Vermont educators like Lauren Parren and David Gibson who were leading the way creating tools for personalized learning. (“The

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Graduation rates tripped between 2008 and 2016, and the school boasts one of the highest four-year graduation rates among community colleges in the state. Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed? But that progress has been uneven, as achievement gaps persist among students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. million persons under the age of 18.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

A Starter Kit For Instructional Designers When EdSurge columnist Amy Ahearn graduated from college in 2008, she had never heard of instructional design—let alone anticipate that she would soon have a career in it. Here’s the 2017 countdown, from #10 to #1.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

She and her eLearning team worked to boost the state’s efforts to connect Indiana to great ideas in educational technology, virtual and online learning, and new learning models and instructional practices. Learn more at att.com/aspire.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2018

That’s one of the reasons a different approach to teaching and learning caught my attention several years ago. My visit to New Tech High School in Napa County, California, during the 2008-09 academic year was the start of an important journey for me that eventually would have an impact on students in my home state and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In addition, Pennsylvania students will receive a 10 percent discount off the tuition at Southern New Hampshire University, making the out-of-state online degree cheaper than what they would likely otherwise pay at a public university in the state.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

The MentorBlog project for example, employed the use of two-person blogs to connect students with their professional mentors, who may never have had the opportunity to meet face to face (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’. Yeomans, P.

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

Since many districts didn’t have a digital learning plan in place for an event like a global pandemic, they are scraping together varied approaches of online learning that are evolving as the situation changes. We’re building the plane while it’s in the air,” Paradise said of teachers trying to adjust to online learning.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. will use this profile to tailor the browsing experience to each individual (Strickland, 2008, para. 2008, March 8).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In this MarketScale EdTech Today podcast from host Kevin Hogan, remote learning expert Sal Khan and Anne Wintroub, director of Social Innovation for the AT&T Foundation, discuss a variety of topics related to edtech, COVID learning, and connectivity. Following is an excerpt of the discussion, which is accessible in full here.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. In 2008, Adam Rubin and Todd Kern co-founded 2Revolutions , or 2Rev, because they believed the field of education was siloed, preventing innovation at scale.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since 2008, Utah has given its families an alternative to preschool called Upstart. Developed and administered through a state contract with the Waterford Institute, the Upstart program provides four-year-olds with in-home online curriculum. But online learning can fill in where parents’ knowledge and skills reach their limits.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

During visits to two schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I was struck by how innovating where the alternative for students is nothing at all is still relevant, years after we wrote about the idea in “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008.

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