Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

At the heart of the case are so-called “inclusive access” programs. Under this model, college students don’t procure materials on their own, but instead pay a fee (sometimes added to their tuition bills) in exchange for access to a bundle of digital textbooks and courseware systems assigned for their classes. Cengage Learning Inc.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

18, 2022 – Many students don’t have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® (AP®) classes due to limited availability of AP® course offerings or certified instructors to teach the classes. The STEM Advanced Placement Access Expansion Opportunity is designed to increase Massachusetts high schoolers’ participation in advanced coursework.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

There’s no doubt that education technology or ‘EdTech’ is an important and fast-evolving entity in the digital age, and one that is having a dramatic impact on the quality of students’ learning. On a similar note, educational technologies are adaptable to the needs of students. The Rise of Hybrid Environments.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2023

Alexa Maqueo Toledo was a junior in high school in Tennessee when she enrolled in Spanish 4, the first course she’d take that offered students the chance to earn both high school and college credit at the same time. Among them: Three states bar undocumented students from attending some or all public institutions of higher education.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

From grade school to higher education, Smart Classrooms have become a mainstay of the modern educational environment. For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 29, 2020

So, last week I called one of my major sponsors – a distance learning professional development company – Advancement Courses. They agreed for three of their top course designers to come on a free webinar with me to talk about distance learning. They know how to do distance learning. What will not be covered?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic caused postsecondary institutions to abruptly transition many of their spring 2020 courses to digital learning. Creating an Equity-Centered Course. A strong focus of this course is to critically examine outcomes for traditionally underserved populations and determine strategies for university administrators (e.g.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Located across the United States and around the world, these school partners are now offering their students access to the nonprofit’s more than 300 core and elective courses online. Our history of excellence helps schools feel confident about choosing VHS Learning to meet their online education needs.”. Boston – Feb.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2021

30, 2021 – VHS Learning, a nonprofit empowering schools with the industry’s best teacher-led online learning programs, today announced that schools in New Jersey, North Carolina, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, along with Sierra Leone, are now offering their students access to more than 250 core and elective courses online.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is a podcast for all education trailblazers seeking the cutting edge of professional growth. As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2021

Like many students taking college courses during the coronavirus pandemic, Alexis Lopez struggled with a poor Wi-Fi connection and professors who didn’t offer much support. I’ve never had to withdraw from a course until the pandemic hit,” she said. This story also appeared in USA Today. They couldn’t really help us.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

VHS Learning’s new partnership with the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) has helped over 100 students from rural schools take Advanced Placement courses that would have been unavailable to them. The partnership enabled the schools to enroll the students in VHS Learning’s AP courses via a NMSI grant program. AP Biology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning. Social studies education serves as the cornerstone for cultivating informed and engaged citizens capable of understanding the complexities of the world around them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

It is time to move forward in education. Advancement Courses sponsors this webinar. Remember to use the code COOL20 for 20% off a course with Advancement Courses. I’ll be taking a course with them this summer for my PD. This webinar includes Vicki Davis and two top course designers from Advancement Courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Through professional learning opportunities for educators, the program is designed to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s AI careers. These innovative educators discussed the challenges of completing the program and their experiences planning and implementing AI curriculum in their classes.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Large school districts in different parts of the United States have now developed systematic ways to increase diverse students’ access to advanced courses, and the districts are also providing other important aspects of an equitable education that prepares the students for 21st century careers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

Traditionally, Spoon says, grading practices for this course tend to emphasize student performance on a limited number of tests. Over time, she’s found that making these tweaks has encouraged her students to stick with the course if they have a bumpy start. That way, students who need extra time don’t have to approach her to ask.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Janae Montgomery has walked the halls of the same school building for much of the last 10 years — first as a high school student, then as a paraprofessional and, as of a few months ago, as a special education teacher. After high school, I initially went away to college to study to become a secondary math teacher. Yeah, I did.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 18, 2021

Education is a continuous process that starts even before a child goes to school. While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Either way, education technology is here to help.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2020

There will be no face-to-face lectures over the course of the next academic year. Perhaps other educational institutions will follow suit. The younger the students, the higher their need for educational structure (which can be very rarely achieved at home). But is this a valid option for all of them? Most probably, it is not.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The school systems and dynamic leaders that embrace change will succeed and create an educational environment that is more equitable and prepares students for their futures.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While the mental health of students remains a top concern of many in the education field, federal data reveals that it’s not all bad news. The National Center for Education Statistics released its biennial Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Department of Education says that $275.7

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

You may not like the new charter school presence in New Orleans, but those schools came about because local educators seized the opportunities presented by Katrina and acted upon them as entrepreneurs. Organizational change in education is often preceded by an action forcing event. Public education will never be the same.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2021

Three Massachusetts schools are the latest to join the hundreds of schools around the world in choosing VHS Learning as an online course provider for their students. VHS Learning design and delivery standards were the model used by the National Education Association when they created the first standards for online learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! So, yesterday I asked educators on “X” (the new rebranded, Twitter, I guess) to share where they are learning about AI. Check out @MyEdTechLife podcasts, all summer hot has interviewed educators using AI.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Boston – Schools around the world and across the United States have launched partnerships with VHS Learning this year to provide their students with rich, engaging online courses in a variety of disciplines. Schools use VHS Learning to provide their students with high-quality online courses.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

. – Gale , part of Cengage Group, is giving educators a new social space to exchange ideas and share best practices. The company has launched Gale Community For Educators , a new Facebook community designed with K-12 educators in mind. stay up to date with the latest educational trends.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But education students still need to work on lesson plans, and kids still need summer activities. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. train future educators to teach online, experts say. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19. By now, you can probably list them by heart. “To

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As use cases expand, and the much-discussed metaverse takes shape, educators today have an opportunity to prepare their students for the technology careers of tomorrow. We’re on a mission to close that education gap. Our educational resources also emphasize differentiated instruction, allowing students to move at different paces.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Students often struggle to make connections between what they learn in their college courses and the skills they need to be successful after graduation. Rob Reynolds, “One of the biggest challenges in today’s education environments is that, for many students, learning has become a ‘black box’ of sorts. Why do I need to know this?

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2023

Today’s high school graduates are increasingly questioning whether higher education is worth it, and that’s pushing colleges to rethink the value they bring students. This was a key theme I heard at last week’s SXSW EDU conference, where several panels addressed what today’s generation of students want, and how colleges can respond.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. The solution?

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

VHS Learning collaborates with educators and educational organizations to help schools maximize their resources,” said Carol DeFuria, President & CEO of VHS Learning. The Concord Consortium collaborates with VHS Learning to provide innovative science and sustainable engineering education, especially to underserved students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It’s also the result of a years-long campaign to identify and promote more students from underrepresented backgrounds into the district’s most challenging math courses. The school district now uses multiple pathways to get more students, especially those from underrepresented groups, into its accelerated courses.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 11, 2021

Over time, however, especially after the experience of participating in the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek , my wheels started turning about how I could apply Angela’s strategies to my own secondary classroom. What I found was that in making their work more accessible to them, I was empowering my students to take ownership of their education.

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