The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Related: What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 25, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. Free Distance Learning Resources. Video labs, along with accompanying teacher and student guides, covering key science topics.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 2, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The online global school’s students and families plan to gather on June 16 via Adobe Connect in a ceremony that will include Camtasia -edited video segments, PowerPoint presentations, and student speeches recorded on smartphones.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 1, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The online global school’s students and families plan to gather on June 16 via Adobe Connect in a ceremony that will include Camtasia -edited video segments, PowerPoint presentations, and student speeches recorded on smartphones.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 6, 2020

Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools [interview with an American Teacher in China] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Are you prepared for online learning if your school is closed for an extended period of time? FREE Webinar: Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools. Click To Tweet.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Companies should be thinking about their cash runway, watching their burn and making sure they are comfortable with where they are at right now,” says Carolan. This is a good time for companies to build goodwill. On the other hand, Palmer notes, “it will be harder for companies to get new investors who are not familiar with them.”

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 26, 2020

It’s both hard and easy to believe that the sentiment “Digital will become the core” still attracts a lot of attention in 2020. But it’s easy to believe when we experience interactions with enterprise companies that are mired in literal paperwork and cumbersome processes that clearly require a digital rethink.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 13, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. Free Distance Learning Resources. Video labs, along with accompanying teacher and student guides, covering key science topics.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. Online learning. 5 New EdTech tools to watch.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

The video kid. I’m always that person people go to when they want to make their video,” said Tung, a senior at Manhattan New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math High School and a violinist in the orchestra, who has had her own YouTube channel since she was in eighth grade. Recruiting via video. CAROLINE PRESTON.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Indian online education startup Byju’s, which already reached the billion-dollar valuation from private investors in 2018, can now claim a new distinction: “decacorn.” That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. It’s an ultra-exclusive club of two dozen companies across the world, according to CB Insights.

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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 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We A sample project in Codecademy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2020

The more I saw people struggle with online learning, it convinced me this work is more important now than it ever was." Ryan Bravin, 2020 corps member in Eastern North Carolina “If anything I think I was more committed to joining,” Bravin says. “A Instead, he became more resolute about its mission.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. So what else is next for the Salt Lake City-based edtech company? The company is also on the search for a new CFO.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. In addition to shopping for applications, he hopes to build partnerships with companies that can support him and his school throughout the tech implementation process.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They suggest that online higher education may work better than pre-pandemic research showed, and that it is evolving decisively toward a combination of in-person and online, or “blended,” classes. A student walks through a mostly empty college campus in Irvine, California, in October 2020.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2022

For instance, physical textbooks have been replaced by online learning modules. Classroom-style lectures have given way to self-learning. Enhanced Quality of Learning Resources . EdTech innovation is also enabling learning resources to be designed in a creative, versatile, inclusive manner.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. That meant using online learning to serve people who would otherwise have no access to higher education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced it has agreed to acquire Wyzant , the nation’s largest marketplace for online tutoring. In March 2020, IXL added Vocabulary.com , the leading educational destination for improving literacy through vocabulary building.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

SplashLearn’s game-based learning platform—available in 150+ countries and already used by more than 40 million children—features thousands of research-informed games aimed at instructing young learners in English language arts and math. The problem, essentially, is our approach to teaching and learning. How-To Videos.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

The quarantine period occurred mostly during the academic year of 2019/2020 and forced many institutions to halt in-person classes and move a considerable amount of instruction online. This shift meant students who did not already engage in online learning were constrained to learn by an online learning modality.

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ExcelinEd

MARCH 24, 2020

As of March 23, 2020 , 46 states have decided to close schools, affecting at least 54.8 Ways to set up at-home learning and grade-based resources from Great Schools. every kid with ideas, solutions and learning materials anyone can use at home. List of online learning resources for parents from the National Parents Union.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Designed to inspire people to take education into their own hands, LenovoEDU is an online community that offers support and resources for college and career students, parents and guardians of K-12 students, and educators around the globe to optimize learning opportunities with a “self-serve” and “build your own curriculum” mindset.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To serve students during the pandemic and beyond, I believe institutions not only must innovate their approaches to learning, but also their approaches to teaching. In a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, statistical models based on academic studies estimated the potential influence of school closures on learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia. Learn more at www.ancorahigh.com.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

After listening to educators, parents and caregivers from across the country, Savvas Learning Company today introduced a range of platform enhancements and new K-12 educational products aimed at making distance learning more impactful. Savvas Realize Optimized for Distance Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

So the college is asking its future teachers to make online activity guides and videos for Home Works , a new distance learning program designed to help kids connect the curricula they usually learn in person at school or camp with what’s going on in their real lives—which right now mostly means being stuck at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. When he clicked on it, the video on the parts of a fraction played without sound and he had no headphones.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

As 2020 kicked off, the U.S. Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students. Consistent with past recessions, many companies are being forced to cut or freeze benefits such as 401(k) contributions. Across industries, demand for talent was booming.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In late April, more than a month into COVID-induced school closures, Matt Goodwin, senior director of product management at Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, explained how the pandemic was upending his company’s development process. “We Learn more about this EdSurge Research project.)

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Some forms of online tutoring mimic in-person tutoring except sessions take place over Zoom or another video chatting app. The online tutoring business is indeed booming. So far, we have two well-designed studies where students were randomly assigned to receive online tutoring and their academic progress was measured.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

While 87% of educators report the move from face-to-face to online instruction was a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” obstacle (Educators for Excellence, May 28, 2020), most studies suggest that online learning, when done well, increases retention and engagement.

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