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Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks to Elevate Instruction

Teacher Reboot Camp

4 Essential Elements for Effective Distance Learning. Currently, I teach the online course, Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning for graduate and continuing education credit. Teaching in a Digital Age (2nd Edition): Guidelines for designing teaching and learning by A.W.

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How to Manage Student Devices for Remote Learning

Digital Promise

With most schools, restaurants, coffee shops, and public libraries closed, students have lost much of their access to public wifi. Work with local businesses and partners to create wifi hotspots where students can safely access wifi while maintaining social distancing protocols. Remind staff about student data privacy and security.

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Self-Regulation in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

Research has indicated that students with stronger self-regulation skills do better in blended learning environments. This makes sense since students in blended and online learning environments enjoy more autonomy and agency over their learning. Supporting Self-regulation in Blended Learning Environments.

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Using ESSER Funds Effectively for PBL and STEM: Advice From the Experts

edWeb.net

At the start of the pandemic, schools in Michigan spent approximately 53% of their Phase I and II of ESSER funding on the continuity of services and keeping students afloat throughout the transition to online learning. billion dollars) is being spent on correcting learning loss.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

Edsurge

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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How Online Book Read-Alouds Can Help Students’ Literacy and Connection During Social Distancing 

MindShift

Since many districts didn’t have a digital learning plan in place for an event like a global pandemic, they are scraping together varied approaches of online learning that are evolving as the situation changes. Most publishers are now granting access to educators, as long as they follow a few rules that vary among publishers.

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Online Learning: Why Libraries Could Be the Key to MOOCs’ Success

MindShift

Learning Circles add a social element to what is otherwise a solitary learning experience by bringing people together in person to take an online course together over six to eight weeks, with the help of a facilitator. How serious they take it, it depends, but I feel like setting some ground rules in the first week is helpful.”.

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