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How Online Learning Can Improve Your Teaching

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Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. The gregarious students no longer take over the class and the quiet ones are not ignored in their silence. That approach, of course, sapped the advantages of being online.

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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

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The challenges of online learning are real, but there are some basic steps teachers and families can take to encourage educational success. Here are a few ways schools can support families of special needs students. Use Online Teacher Tools to Communicate With Families. Black, Lindsey I., Anjel Vahratian and Howard J.

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Understanding Teacher Engagement in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

We talk a lot about student engagement in education. Most educators got into this profession for the students, and, as a result, we want their experience to be as engaging and positive as possible. There is far less written about teacher engagement, even though teacher engagement and student engagement are reciprocal.

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The Why, How, and What of Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Blended learning is the combination of active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to provide students with more control over the time, place, pace, and path of their learning. I want students to want to be in our classrooms–physical or virtual.

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

Edsurge

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U.

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ISTE Certification 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer). Our new book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning, was released today! Related Posts.

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Will the Pandemic Lead More Colleges to Offer Credit for MOOCs? Coursera is Pushing for It.

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When two Stanford University professors started Coursera in 2012, the focus was on building free online courses to bring teaching from elite colleges out to the world. But the pandemic has forced those selective colleges to embrace online learning like never before, and now all types of colleges are teaching online.

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