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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

Others, like genius hour and bite-sized learning, are recently arrived educational trends that may have a helpful place in your classroom. This year, as schools moved to online learning and teachers scrambled to adjust their curriculum, many teachers, students, and parents gained new appreciation for the value of self-care.

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

Research also suggests that online learning can encourage intrinsic motivation.[1] 1] In part, this is because online learning often involves some level of independence—and independent learning is also linked to motivated students.[12] Interactive Learning Environments, 2016, 24(6), pp. Buckley, P.,

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

Edsurge

train future educators to teach online, experts say. A 2016 survey of such programs found that only about 4 percent of respondents offered field experiences such as student teaching in K-12 online settings. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.”

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The Virtual High School’s Stacy Young to Speak at CSforALL Summit

techlearning

This year, The Virtual High School will develop and launch a new 15-week online cybersecurity course for delivery in the 2019-2020 academic year. A four-week companion module on cybersecurity will also be available in summer 2019. is an online learning pioneer.

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PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

The Hechinger Report

“I believe, absolutely, there will be a massive increase in credit recovery, not just during the pandemic, but continuing for a long time afterwards,” said Kinsey Rawe, senior vice president and general manager of courseware and instructional services at Imagine Learning, a leading seller of credit recovery programs to schools.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

In an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate and Battelle for Kids , school administrators emphasized pandemic-triggered changes are lessons learned that can frame effective educational practices moving forward. At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning.