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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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Mentoring for Digital Leadership in California Adult Educators

Digital Promise

For more than 30 years, California’s Outreach and Technical Assistance Network ( OTAN ) has been at the forefront of meeting the technology needs of adult education providers, including English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.

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Expand Technology Integration and Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

adults ages 18–65—around 118 million—perform at or below the lowest proficiency levels in problem solving in technology rich environments ( National Center for Education Statistics, 2016 ). While there is limited use of paid learning software, there is widespread use of free online learning resources.

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Old Ways Meet New Tech (and New Students) at Meeting of Library and Academic Leaders

Edsurge

Next Wave 2017 was the latest in an annual, invitation-only meeting series run by Ithaka , the nonprofit group behind JSTOR, ArtStor, the PORTICO digital archiving and preservation service, and Ithaka S&R, which conducts research on higher ed and technology.

Meeting 101
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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

During a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by The ProEthica® Program, the superintendent of one of America’s largest school districts spoke with a former state superintendent and other education leaders about key issues affecting students, parents, and educators, including digital access and equity, online privacy, and funding.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

Loveless noted in 2016 that: Equating NAEP proficiency with grade level is bogus. If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail. It’s significantly above that. ” Does that result surprise anyone? They immediately came under fire in reviews by the U.S.

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What is Blended Learning?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In their eyes, blended learning is “an intermediate step between fully F2F and fully online learning environment”(p. Auster (2016) defines blended learning in a succinct and clear manner. Auster’s study (Carol Auster, 2016​ ​​​). Blended Learning’s Consistent Presence. 127–142).