eSchool News

JULY 4, 2018

With many schools now practicing blended learning, it can be helpful for educators interested in blended-learning programs to know which edtech tools are being used. For over five years, we at the Christensen Institute have been collecting data on blended-learning schools from around the world.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

Renton recently completed the second year of a multi-year program that started with inviting students to codesign the new vision and to become creators of their own learning experience. Students have more agency in their education and are becoming creators and contributors in the learning process.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2019

From K-12 classrooms to professional sales training, many entrepreneurs would say that learning is better together, with peers and instructors. That also applies to “bootcamp” models of online learning, which made up half of the six edtech graduates. Edyst Online learning has a loneliness problem.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Finally, there are states that had some version of a law prior to 2020 and proceeded to add provisions to better address the needs of distance learning. of California’s Public Contract Code only addressed online learning in the context of surplus technology and nonprofit computer labs. Jennifer E.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. 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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? There are now public bathrooms, and students have designed and maintain exercise equipment scattered around the trail. Census data.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2017

They sat logged into their school-provided Chromebooks studying exercise ideas from their sports coaches. In 2016 alone, 12.6 Since not all parents are equally familiar with technology themselves, schools can level the playing field by telling them about good online learning sites and best practices for limiting screen time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Two teachers, seated at U-shaped tables on opposite ends of the classroom, were going through a reading exercise with four kids each, helping them sound out letters. In addition, NSNO started a personalized learning fellowship in the 2016-17 school year, giving teachers $2,000 apiece to start pilots in their own classrooms.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 6, 2016

Ben is currently in Kentucky doing his PhD in Online Learning…could you ask for a better pairing? As we start 2016 think about starting a PD journey that time and time again educators have said this is some of the best PD they have ever done. Excited that Ben Sheridan is the lead instructor for this cohort.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Parts 2 and 3 of the course will be offered in 2016 and will cover rotational motion, gravity, oscillations, electricity, circuits and sound. Professor Hafner and his ‘accomplices’ really try to make physics fun. They were accessible and (it) didn’t feel like they were thousands of kilometers away.”.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Notes on Open Pedagogy (2016), a response to some writing by Mary Burgess and Amanda Coolidge. Open” Educational Resources vs “Open” Pedagogy: Why Meanings Matter (2016) in which I complain for the nth time about why definitions matter and we should all strive to be more precise.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2020

With many schools now practicing blended learning, it can be helpful for educators interested in blended-learning programs to know which edtech tools are being used. For over five years, we at the Christensen Institute have been collecting data on blended-learning schools from around the world.

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Georgia Test Prep

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A 2016 report found that students check their devices for “non-class purposes” 11.43 A ransomware attack in Hartford, Connecticut forced schools to postpone the start of online classes. Online learning programs around the nation are crashing. times a day on average. And this is just in the first couple of months!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. What if online learning could be a way to help us more effectively figure out who we should invest in? Accordingly, this online course is a service employers are willing to pay for.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. public high schools (42.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia program caught the attention of the Department of Justice, which launched an investigation that lasted several years, and resulted in a 21-page letter of findings in July, 2015, and a lawsuit in August, 2016. Couple this with the lack of instruction from teachers certified in content areas, he said, and learning suffers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. “I have some bright students, and a lot of them felt chagrined that they weren’t able to deduce this,” said Colglazier, who videotaped the episode last January.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Carr nodded, saying they could return to rote exercises after. In 2016, a team of Harvard researchers published an analysis examining some 200 experiments aimed at improving education, from pre-kindergarten expansion to class-size reduction. Frustrated, Victor asked for help. Can we do the box thing?” Victor nodded.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” Some of New Markets Venture Partner’s investments include BetterLesson, Credly, Civitas Learning, and Mashable. The Chinese online learning company has raised $40.14 Indonesian online education company HarukaEdu has raised $2.2 Very unfair! — Donald J.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” “ NoRedInk Adds New Exercises to Prepare Students for ACT, SAT,” says Edsurge. ” VCU’s Jon Becker writes “More about online learning in Virginia.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Characteristics of Colleges That Raised the Most in Private Donations , FY 2016.”

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