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#SmartSeries Refresh | Improving Conditions and Career: How Blended Learning Can Improve The Teaching Profession

ExcelinEd

A lot has happened in the world of digital learning since ExcelinEd’s Digital Learning Now initiative and Getting Smart released the first Smart Series paper in August 2012. Improving Conditions and Careers: How Blended Learning Can Improve The Teaching Profession. Download full paper.

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

Holmes County Central High School is one of eight rural schools participating in a new, blended learning AP Physics program. Indeed, many rural districts have turned to online offerings as a fast way to increase college-level courses and either fill in for teachers they don’t have, or make better use of the teachers they do have.

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Are We On Track? Part 2

Doug Levin

Based on a prediction of logarithmic growth, that would suggest – if the prediction was correct – that we should be a substantial way toward the “substitution of online-delivered learning for live-teacher instruction” (p.98). 5 May 2008. Source for quotation: Lagace, Martha. 18 August 2008.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

Edsurge

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” Just a few years old, it’s still a “fledgling journal,” Archambault says.

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The Number of Students Taking in Online Courses Is Quickly Rising, But Perceptions Are Changing Slowly

Edsurge

In both K12 and higher education options for students to take whole courses, blended courses and—in some places—entire degree programs online are more prevalent than ever. Then they will mention taking one online course and hating it. Then they want to talk to me for 45 minutes about how bad online learning is.

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Can Online Learning Level the AP Playing Field for Rural Students?

MindShift

Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality. million online courses in 2014-15. million students took about 4.5

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Top Tips for Teaching Online From Educators Doing It Now

edWeb.net

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. Lisa Cutshall is Director of Partner Engagement at Five Star Technology.