Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Liberating campus-bound faculty.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Skills for online engagement with students who are experiencing anxiety (and trauma) can be especially helpful for educators struggling with student disengagement in online classrooms. Learn More. When school and online learning follow you everywhere, teachers and students need to learn balance. Learn More.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

What are digital learning platforms? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Their collective efforts are meeting a range of needs—from internet access to devices to social-emotional supports. Witnessing how many students lacked access to the most basic components of online learning—devices and internet access—LEANLAB and their partners across the metro region took immediate action.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Every Verizon Innovative Learning School is assigned a full-time instructional technology coach to support teachers with effectively integrating technology into learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. million online courses in 2014-15. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2016

In Arkansas, as in most states, student interest in online learning is skyrocketing. While most students still take at least some of their courses in a face-to-face setting, the need to scale online learning opportunities for thousands of students has required new infrastructure, new curriculum, and, of course, new teachers.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

She is the current Digital Access Coordinator for the Learning Technology Center of Illinois (LTC) and an Illinois State E-rate Coordinator. She has worked in educational technology for nearly two decades, empowering educators to integrate digital learning in the classroom. What does blended learning look like?

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Digital-based learning benefits students. Blended learning and flipped classrooms. When teachers leverage technology, learning outcomes improve. From virtual labs and games to digital textbooks and online curriculum, digital classrooms rely on video. More motivated to learn.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. Teachers, students and parents report that they see great advantage to digital learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

Early stage edtechs are also participating in the AWS EdStart program, the AWS edtech virtual startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud.

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Doug Levin

JULY 12, 2017

For those without access to the original text, the Summer 2008 edition (Vol. Christensen and Michael B. “ Online Education Cast as ‘Disruptive Innovation’ ” Education Week. Didn’t the authors intend to include the growth of “blended learning” in their prediction, too?

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

Read it now: The blended learning models that can help schools reopen. States are creating plans for fall as many wonder how COVID-19 has impacted learning as we know it. eSN managing editor Laura Ascione gives five predictions for the post-COVID learning. Read it now: 5 predictions for post-COVID learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. Could Google Draw be used for a collaborative visual thinking activity such as Chalk Talk, or Zoom breakout rooms be used for online critique and revision? Leave a comment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. So far, the digital learning plans have been a boon to educators looking for advice. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., Here in the U.S. I’m not being rude.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. Student Portfolios are the epitome of Dynamic Blended Learning and going beyond the due date because they are never “done.”

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Click on the links below to open the Google Slides presentation and access the resources. Blended Learning with Google. Online Learning Best Practices. Google Tips for Remote Learning. © Shake Up Learning 2021. Ready to shake up learning in your school or at your event? Click To Tweet.

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BYOT Network

JUNE 11, 2020

This post is cross-posted on the IMS Global Learning Impact Blog. The Value of an Interoperable Learning Management System. Last week we explored how interoperability supports the transition to digital learning. Online learning is not something that you can just ramp up in 48 hours.

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, May 22, 2018 — To keep students actively learning over the summer and to help prevent summer learning loss, the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE), with the help of Fuel Education® (FuelEd®), is launching its sixth annual Alabama Summer Learning Challenge. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” Just a few years old, it’s still a “fledgling journal,” Archambault says.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. million online courses in 2014-15. million students took about 4.5

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 29, 2017

What once was pedagogy now seems better defined as digital pedagogy for classrooms with the advantages of easily accessible technology tools. A digital learning environment also means that students have access to resources digitally as well. It means creating a curated list of additional helps for access.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting learners across the world, we’ve witnessed the growing need for hybrid learning, an education option that combines the benefits of a traditional in-person classroom and online learning. The future of hybrid learning is bright, and the benefits are unmatched. I’ve seen it for myself.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Stop buying lesson plans and worksheets and access the wonderful free resources available to you! para We provide teachers with tools to build flexible, personalized digital learning environments so they can power awesome learning. . Learn more about H?para. This brings accessibility of the texts to all students.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

And to provide a stable structure for the school day, she keeps to routines and established office hours, follows the Indiana time recommendations for continuous learning, and disconnects in the evening. In regard to the online content she provides, Olivia focuses on making it accessible through the use of pictures, emojis, and screen shots.

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The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

This week I am hanging out in Indianapolis at the Virtual School Symposium sponsored by the International Association for K12 Online Learning ( iNACOL ). conference online learning' Today I let an all day pre-conference on Google Apps for Education. I always appreciate feedback on my posts.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Students have steadily headed to larger schools, where they believed they had more access to more academic resources. But if Bentley was going to compete with bigger schools, its students still needed more options in terms of class choice and access to high quality academic content. Easily differentiate learning for groups of learners.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2016

Online CTE model will provide hands on training and dual credit opportunities for middle and high school students. Online learning provider K12 Inc. Programs like these help mitigate youth underemployment and these online courses will help reach even more underserved youth.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Digital learning platforms are not, however, simply a matter of reproducing a print-first approach via high fidelity ebooks. As the financial viability of printed textbooks declines little by little, the demand for alternatives like online learning content continues to grow. Those days are coming to an end.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Shiny new technologies can capture well-meaning educators like insects in amber, but the evidence is clear that digital learning can improve student opportunities and outcomes. Below I outline six strategic steps that will point school leaders as well as classroom teachers toward digital learning success: 1.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It also meant developing features that would support fully online learning. That flip spurred Nearpod leaders to “create a quick-to-access teacher dashboard for a student-paced lesson,” according to Romero-Heaps. They began to consider other ways that their products could be used during remote and blended learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

To give further context, I’ve sorted them alphabetically, into four categories; (1) those organizations that are instructionally-focused; (2) those that provide supports for technology leadership; (3) those that focus on connectivity and access; and (4) those that focus on data privacy and security. Organization: Code.org ®. URL: code.org.

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Linways Technologies

JUNE 19, 2020

During the transition to online classrooms and online learning management, it’s a common pitfall for most teachers to start relying on a whole bunch of tools to manage their tasks and activities. From there, all the relevant data metrics related to that batch can be accessed including attendance records, performance graphs, etc.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. But they also know a device alone is not enough.

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