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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. a far smaller number grant degrees online. Five other, mostly online universities—all in Asia—enroll more than a million each.

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Why edtech plays a big role in future-proofing education

Neo LMS

Secondary schools and high schools face their own conundrums regarding final exams. Access to education — digital or otherwise — and opportunity gaps that existed before are widening. The University of Cambridge has already set a precedent for moving all academic activities online. Most probably, it is not.

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‘Students Are Lonely:’ What Happens When Coronavirus Forces Schools Online

Edsurge

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. Here in the U.S. Back then, many were speculating that schools would reopen in a few weeks.

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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

eSchool News

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

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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COVID-19 Forces Science Labs Online and in Homes

Edsurge

The challenge: how students can complete lab work without access to a science lab. But the state also approved college credit for courses completed online. The sudden jump to online learning has upturned education disciplines around the globe. This will turn into a long-term interest, I hope,” he says.

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