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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said.

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

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This is a major barrier that prevents faculty from accepting the legitimacy and potential benefits of online learning. However, other faculty have found that online classes open more opportunities to build relationships with students, as communications are not confined to a time and place.

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Persistence Is Not Always Productive: How to Stop Students From Spinning Their Wheels

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(The tool relied on publically released data from Carnegie Learning.) In another recent paper , published this April, researchers led by Anthony Botelho created a wheel-spinning detector using ASSISTments , a free online learning platform that my team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute developed for math education.

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

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Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities. In 2015, after working with other tech partners, 2Revolutions decided to build its own social learning platform from scratch.

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Not Just Buzzwords: How Teachers Bring Big Ideas, Innovative Practices to Life

Edsurge

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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