eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Do students learn better online or in a classroom: statistics help shed light. What is the success rate of online learning? While some research suggests comparable outcomes between online and classroom learning, others indicate differences depending on specific contexts and methodologies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. It then compared annual growth from fall 2019 to fall 2020 to average annual fall-to-fall growth rates in previous years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For my year-end post, I’m highlighting 10 of the most well-read Proof Points stories of 2019. What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. Weakest students more likely to take online college classes but do worse in them.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For some industries, 2020 was a boon to business. One of them is education–specifically online learning and virtual schools. Online learning is growing rapidly and is well-positioned to be the next big thing in education. billion by 2027 , growing at a CAGR of 18 percent from 2020 to 2027.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 16, 2021

Education technology has emerged during this period as an indispensable tool for many schools, enabling students to not only continue their education but thrive with the additional flexibility and personalized support that many online learning platforms provide. billion – from 2019 to 2020. billion – from 2019 to 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

But despite growth in the numbers and sophistication of online options, high school seniors continue to apply for the opportunity to learn with one another on a college campus. Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that? I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

However, although online instruction can help minimize health risks, it also introduces heightened security risks and highlights the importance of protecting data. This was certainly true in corporate environments, where more than 80 percent of companies saw “slightly to considerably more” cyberattack attempts in the first half of 2020.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since the beginning of the school shutdowns, there have been debates about the effectiveness of online learning. Empowering students and ensuring they can personally connect to their learning can be two of the deepest ways to engage students. Read more: Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Education technology has emerged during this period as an indispensable tool for many schools, enabling students to not only continue their education, but thrive with the additional flexibility and personalized support that many online learning platforms provide. billion–from 2019 to 2020. Edtech explosion.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But, as one student pointed out in a 2019 survey , that confidence is easily shaken. In another survey , this one from 2020, more than 80 percent of students said that the thing they missed most in online learning was being able to see and collaborate with other students and their instructors in person.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

While COVID-19 hit at the tail end of the first quarter, some publicly traded education companies already reported an impact on their Q1 2020 earnings. Its Q1 2020 revenue hit $132 million, a 35 percent increase from the same period last year. The bottom line: Overall revenue for K12’s fiscal Q3 2020 , which ended March 31, hit $257.2

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the nicest advantages that some students enjoyed about the spring version of online learning was the relaxation of the bell schedule. Fortunately, an important distinction was made in a 2019 study issued by Australian health scientist Taren Sanders – that not all screen time is equal. Less passive, more interactive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Indeed, as of 2020, the national student debt crisis reached a striking $1.6 These students are navigating barriers to education and basic needs, which include sudden campus closures, losses in campus service support, transitions to online learning, unemployment and limited access to resources.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In November of 2019, I wrote a post titled “ The Needed Struggle of Learning ,” discussing some of the struggles and insecurities I was having with recording my podcast. November 2019 seems like ten years ago, and to think that making a podcast would be my biggest challenge of 2020 seems foolish now!

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

million in revenue in 2020, marking a 59 percent increase from the previous year. Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students. Despite recording a revenue jump in 2020, Coursera posted a net loss of $66.8

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Thirty-nine percent of families in the Ector County School District in Odessa had limited to no internet connectivity at the end of the 2019-2020 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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] Education Week, 2019. Differences of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. In California, only 10 percent of English learners were chronically absent in 2019.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2020

In the middle of the abrupt changes to the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year, edtech companies offered resources and access to help educators, students, and parents make the best of at-home learning. Here is insight from a select few of those edtech leaders.

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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. Be active: Prioritize active digital activities, like online learning games or interactive lessons, over passive activities, like watching a video.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Its contract with Long Beach Unified for the 2019-2020 school year is for $21,110. percent (about 240 students)—up from 17.2

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Most recently, issues with its online learning platform mired the remote learning experience for many students and teachers in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, leading the district to terminate its contract. 30, 2020, Medcerts and Tech Elevator generated approximately $19 million and $11 million, respectively.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

(Credit: Mike Zetlow) I know from my year teaching at VIPKid that students can learn online , a conclusion researchers have also reached. This online learning model doesn’t work for every child, but it is right for some. Invest in blended and online learning professional development.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. Since 2014, Salesforce has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop curriculum for Trailhead, its free online learning platform.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We may technically be in the middle of a school year, but starting a new calendar year has us looking at and forecasting the new K12 education trends we expect to see in 2019. In fact, we’re excited to see what role these trends will play going forward and into the 2019-2020 school year. K12 trends in education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. As parents fearful of coronavirus’s spread and frustrated with their schools’ forays into remote learning seek other options, they are increasingly turning to virtual for-profit charter schools like the one Nemergut chose.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

The long journey of the coronavirus pandemic took students through dimensions of online learning, social isolation, economic anguish, personal loss and mass grief. It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We That distress can take the form of burnout, which appears to be increasing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

The special free-access offer for ALEKS MathReady is available now through October 18, 2020 and subscriptions will automatically renew on a monthly basis at a rate of $19.95/month.*. For over 20 years, ALEKS has served more than 20 million K-12 and college level math students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse. Lampkin blames the year and a half his sons were away from school buildings from March 2020 until the fall of 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The system fully implemented the program in the 2019-20 school year and reduced the number of developmental course sections it offered. Pigg is the associate dean of institutional research & academic advancement at Southern Union and was chair of the mathematics department in 2019. “It percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data.

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

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. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, March 2019, 14, pp. Hardiman, M.M., JohnBull, R.M., Carran, D.T., and Shelton, A. University of Houston.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

It speaks directly to a primary challenge facing our education system in this COVID-era: Some students and families have the means to succeed in a remote learning environment, and others do not. Reduced Payment Plan, an initiative that reduces the fee to set up a tuition payment plan for fall 2020 from $25 to just $1.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If it is easier to use, are we focused on creating better things with it and “deep learning,” or are we focusing on the “shine” of technology? . In this post from January 2019, I discussed these ideas and wanted to dig deeper into them on my podcast.

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