The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes. One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning. Hill’s chart shows how online learning at college has jumped to a new plateau.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

We begin 2021 heartened by the resiliency of educators and students from around the country pushing through the disruptions of COVID-19. Even in the face of current challenges, many schools and districts are using this moment to design new approaches that will shape learning far into the future.

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. Three Phases of Online Learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Last March, Zoom, the ubiquitous online conferencing platform, became a staple of daily life for many students and educators as learning shifted online. Millions downloaded it—and first learned of it—back in early 2020, when lockdowns forced billions of students online, and at least 100,000 schools onto Zoom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

“Things will never be the same in higher education!” Those who expected radical disruption in the wake of the Great Recession now seem to believe that it’s the coronavirus that will lead to a massive migration of students away from in-person learning and toward the promised land of tech-infused distance education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Over the course of 2020, there has been plenty of discussion about what will and won’t return to “normal” once we’ve fought COVID-19 into submission. And second: demand for online undergraduate and graduate degrees will grow too. Millions of people in the U.S. have lost their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

STEM courses in higher education need labs, but that doesn’t mean labs are being used online. education conferences—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. Home Is Where the Homeschooling Is Could greater public approval of homeschooling be an unexpected result of the pandemic’s forced experiment in remote online learning?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Teachers can use templates created by educators and available from the library or add interactive questions and formative assessments, such as multiple choice, draw response, drag and drop, open discussion questions, and more. This is very different than in class instruction.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Axios reported that venture firms have cumulatively raised $100 billion over the past two years, and many are “ open for business ” and actively investing. Count education-focused firms among them. Matt Greenfield, managing director of Rethink Education, also says activity has been about the same so far. “We

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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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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For many educators, the “metaverse” is but a vague and extraneous concept. But, metaverse technologies are growing quickly and have enormous implications for the future of teaching and learning. As such, the following Q&A aims to introduce EdTechTeacher readers to the metaverse and how it may impact education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Online learning efforts may remain even when the pandemic fades away. Perhaps (not) coincidentally, there is more spending forecast for education technology. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. An appropriately titled RAND Corporation research report, “ Remote Learning Is Here to Stay ,” finds that one in five U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A recent analysis of federal government data by Jeff Seaman of Bayview Analytics shows that enrollment in on-campus courses fell nearly 11 percent in the past decade and almost 30 percent from 2020 to 2021. For years, it’s been a struggle for many college faculty to adapt to online instruction.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Blended Teaching: How Plagiarism Detection Software Can Help Educators Gain Confidence Discover the benefits of using plagiarism detection software in times of blended teaching Today, EdTech has become more popular than ever before. Apart from conducting fully remote classes, many educators have chosen the blended teaching model.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. But education students still need to work on lesson plans, and kids still need summer activities. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. What is surprising is that many teacher programs don’t prepare their graduates well for the rigors of using technology to meet current educational requirements.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2019

And once you’re recharged, get set—there’s a world of learning opportunities on the horizon. The higher education landscape is dotted with opportunities to connect with and learn from fellow colleagues, faculty, developers and entrepreneurs, all working on new ideas and tools to support teaching and learning.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – It goes without saying that the COIVD-19 pandemic has impacted higher education and students across the globe. And how can institutions respond to the shifts in learning? Data on how COVID-19 has impacted learner readiness comes out of the National Readiness Report , published by SmarterServices.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2021

A new CoSN study , supported by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, gives educators and policymakers a detailed view of students’ at-home learning experiences during the pandemic. But since March 2020, the imperative of this outside-of-school challenge has become readily apparent to all.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Their failure is my failure.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Or should they start fourth graders off at the usual beginning, learning place values through millions and billions, as if third grade hadn’t been disrupted?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Teachers can use templates created by educators and available from the library or add interactive questions and formative assessments, such as multiple choice, draw response, drag and drop, open discussion questions, and more. This is very different than in class instruction.

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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. At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A version of this post was originally published on December 3rd, 2020, in Education IT Reporter. Worldwide, schools and universities are now, like never before, dealing with a large-scale disruption in education. 3 Ways in which edtech enables hybrid learning. Adaptive learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Digital alternatives at residential colleges and other new ways of delivering education have exploded since the pandemic forced schools to shut down in March 2020, forcing a reckoning in a sector already reeling from enrollment declines, rising tuition and unmanageable, often hidden student debt.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In early March, 15 schools in the United Kingdom reported they were made incapable of delivering online learning for students after a cyberattack forced the education trust to shut down all systems to investigate whether the cybercriminals accessed the central network infrastructure.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

In addition, a 2022 GAO report indicated that K–12 schools faced significant disruptions in learning and substantial monetary losses due to cyberattacks, with some districts reporting a halt on educational operations of three days to three weeks and recovery periods spanning two to nine months.

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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 many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Even as doors reopened to brick-and-mortar schools, administrators here saw the continued need for a virtual option in response to lingering concerns about Covid and to feedback from some parents that their children had thrived in online learning. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Although educators are trying to keep schools open during the pandemic, they still have to figure out how to educate children quarantining at home. When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, Bartlett wanted to document the lives of teachers. It’s completely absurd.”.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on July 2, 2020, in Open Access Government. In the context of the pandemic, many schools and universities turned to virtual learning environments as the only way of ensuring some continuity of education during these times of crisis. It was meant to support it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

“Like we’ve been on this really long flight into outer space, sometimes it feels like we’ve just been in another universe,” said Kim Hirabayashi, a professor of clinical education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. It resulted in psychological distress for many.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Yoni Lotan performs as his captain character for a remote birthday party produced by Camp, in his apartment in Brooklyn on March 26, 2020. CAROLINE PRESTON.

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