EdTech Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Back in 2017, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee reported that nearly 12 million children lived in homes without a broadband connection, but the problem made few headlines. The study found that 1 in 4 low-income teens lacked access to a home computer. The following year, the Pew Research Center found that 15% of U.S.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. The “accent” of a digital immigrant (preferring a printed report rather than one online, for instance) strikes digital natives as odd.[4]. ASCD InService.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This approach allows for a personalized learning journey, accommodating different learning styles and needs, and often involves some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace of learning. Auster ‘s Study In an innovative approach to blended learning, Carol J. Fabbian et al.’s

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2018

A federal report on students’ home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. “We think there’s a big problem, and we need good data around it,” says CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. “This is critical.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Holmes County Central High School is one of eight rural schools participating in a new, blended learning AP Physics program. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2, million online courses in 2014-15.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Edward’s University , where he works as an associate professor of philosophy and the director of the Center of Ethics and Leadership , was one of the 21 institutions taking part in a study to explore teaching upper-level humanities courses online. Edward’s held in May 2017 that focused on adopting IT tools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But, as an outside observer, I find it upsetting that a potential solution to improving graduation rates is to sacrifice learning. Related: Five studies find online courses are not working well at community colleges. Fischer believes that colleges learned a lot about how to improve online learning during the pandemic. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The speakers all pressed that digital learning, and in particular online charter schools, are falling short for students and teachers. There has been a huge explosion of online learning and edtech in our schools… and online education is privatizing education through for-profit companies and their apps,” said Haimson.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. A follow up report in 2019 found similarly dismal results. You have infinite material to pull from in real time.”.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Inside Higher Ed (IHE) recently issued their 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology and we were excited about the big initial finding that more faculty are teaching online and that more are finding that online learning can meet the same outcomes. We have taken issue with other reports for similar issues.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

About 78 percent of institutions it surveyed are reaching out to international students virtually, according to a May report from IIE on how covid-19 is effecting higher education campuses. Think virtual campus tours and online recruitment events. In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. took at least one online course. Without modern technology and near-constant connectivity, online learning wouldn’t be possible. According to the National Center for Education Statistics , a further 33.1%

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. We could neither travel nor meet in person. Still, we were taking a risk.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to a recent report by the Department of Labor , over half (66.7%) of all of 2017’s high school cohort are currently enrolled in colleges or universities. So, taking one step back, many studies have acknowledged the extraordinary waste of resources, that an under-prepared freshman can be. The online advantage.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the summer of 2017, the head of Edge, Rick Singer, sent an email to Littlefair letting her know that they “had someone to take the classes” for her son and that he would let her know “what it would take to complete so we can bill,” according to the court filings. Such a provision has not made it into the rules, however.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Source: “Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning Platforms,” August 2020 Learning at Scale. In early trials in which 11,000 students completed more than 370,000 online homework problems, the teacher hints seemed to be more effective. “You

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report. For that to work, though, he said the state needs to create more infrastructure, such as a centralized guide to online courses, to help schools get there. The Gates Foundation is among the many supporters of The Hechinger Report.). Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

A 2015 report found that the lack of AP classes may increase the financial burden on college-bound rural students: Students who don’t take AP classes don’t earn college credit that could enable them to graduate more quickly, and such students are “more likely to pay for additional remedial coursework when beginning college.”.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. Publicly available research also comes out of Michigan Virtual, a two-decade-old nonprofit that provides professional development for teachers and online courses for students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

In 2017, our center conducted a similar survey on teachers’ emotions. In one study, 85 percent of teachers reported that work-life imbalance was affecting their ability to teach. Yet we have to partake in multiple seminars, read links related to online instruction, legal requirements in special ed, due process, timelines, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

The seminal Coleman Report published in 1966 showed that student outcomes inside the classroom are predicated on their circumstances outside the classroom. More recent studies show that the summer is a pivotal period for student learning. According to 2018 study by the U.S. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. Photo: Kaitlin Gillespie for The Hechinger Report. She didn’t know where and she didn’t know what she planned to study, but she knew she wanted to leave, explore and earn her college degree. ONALASKA, Wash.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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Hapara

MAY 25, 2023

It’s still important to provide structure and clear expectations, but student-led learning allows educators to be flexible and support learners’ individual needs. What are the benefits of student-led learning? You can also let them decide how they’ll show what they’ve learned.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

And if they were sad, or having a bad day with classmates or the teacher, well, then they might not learn so much. So a recent study suggesting just the opposite caught my attention, especially since it has potential applications for online learning. A 2016 Australian study, “ Can Sadness Be Good For You?

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. Understanding Chronic Absenteeism The U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with a $100 million fund in 2015, Owl has since raised two subsequent funds— $185 million in 2017, and $315 million in 2019. A different report from Educause, the higher-ed equivalent of CoSN, revealed that three-quarters of colleges are bracing for technology budget cuts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. . Students at B.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. This story about supporting college students was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. We don’t have a distance learning plan that is operating on all cylinders,” he said in April.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. The post How to sort the good from the bad in OER appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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GoConqr

MARCH 10, 2017

The fact that we have an online library so complete is exclusively thanks to all our e-learning members. Community and study groups. On GoConqr you can find all types of online groups so, no matter what you study, you’ll end up finding at least one group of people with the same learning objectives as you.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. Aaaaaaaa ,” the kids chanted. Teira Rucker, 11.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In Texas, after schools went online in the spring, Black and Hispanic students failed to submit assignments or respond to outreach from their teachers at more than double the rate of their white classmates , the Texas Education Agency reports. Related: Students who counted on work-study jobs now struggle to pay their bills.

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