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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. Lindsay’s ability to rapidly pivot to remote learning in spring 2020 was largely due to preexisting infrastructure. High school senior Connor Dunbar. Does it work?

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Approaching an Online Computer Science Degree: What You Need to Know

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This guide is crafted to provide you with essential insights and strategies for navigating an online computer science degree successfully. Understanding the Online Learning Environment Embracing the online learning landscape is the first step toward your academic success.

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Online Learning Is Not the Enemy

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The first won’t come as a surprise to anyone: The shift to online courses last spring was nothing short of a perfect storm. Is the prevailing takeaway from this brutal, oppressive year a shared aversion toward online learning? That should give us all pause.

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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. Altus officials say they have protections in place to prevent cheating online.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, the education research firm Eduventures issued a report about 175 institutions with some level of CBE, even if just a course or two. STANDARDS-BASED LEARNING Tying instruction to certain standards agreed upon as the goals for what students should know at various ages or grades in school (standards often set by the state).