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Online learning can help schools retain students

eSchool News

An analysis by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools found that charter school enrollment increased by more than 7 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 as families found other alternatives for their children’s education. Choices in modality Although some students fell behind during the shift to remote learning, others thrived.

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PROOF POINTS: Most college kids are taking at least one class online, even long after campuses reopened

The Hechinger Report

One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning. Even after campuses reopened and the health threat diminished, colleges and universities continued to offer more online courses and added more online degrees and programs.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

Today’s case in point is an odd article in Insider Higher Ed. “ HyFlex Is Not the Future of Learning ” starts off by complaining about that form of teaching, then becomes a general complaint about online learning. Next he praises the on-campus experience, in contrast to online learning.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

Note the huge spike in January 2022 due to the Omicron variant. Also note that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) chose to administer the NAEP tests in March 2022 , during the downswing of that huge spike in cases and after two years of COVID trauma (six weeks later America hit the 1 million dead mark ).

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How Classroom Environment Shapes Understanding of Cause and Effect Relationships

Ask a Tech Teacher

According to Statista , in a study taken in 2022, 47% of college students believed that online learning in higher education was on par with in-person instruction in the US. It’s the basis of the scientific process, which is how we figure out whether or not an effect follows from a cause. It will be an excellent exercise.

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Fewer kids are enrolling in kindergarten as pandemic fallout lingers

The Hechinger Report

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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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

Edsurge

At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. Only about a third of the state’s high school class of 2022 were enrolled in postsecondary education within a year following graduation, according to the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education.

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