The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Now, she spends four days a week in an unusually small seminar-style calculus class with 31 other aspiring mathematicians and engineers. “I

Education 128

Education Course Report Policies 128

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place?

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

Course 106

Course System Data Strategy 106

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

For example, evidence from the Florida Virtual School program shows students did as well or only nominally better than their peers who did not participate in the virtual learning program (Chingos & Schwerdt, 2014). Some of these results are due to the varied levels of effectiveness that a virtual learning experience might offer.

Learning 33

Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

For example, evidence from the Florida Virtual School program shows students did as well or only nominally better than their peers who did not participate in the virtual learning program (Chingos & Schwerdt, 2014). Some of these results are due to the varied levels of effectiveness that a virtual learning experience might offer.

Learning 33

Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. There are currently 50 students, all ninth graders.

Khan Academy 165

Khan Academy Learning Accessibility Assessment 165

Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. As an aside, I think we have massively overcomplicated online learning. Now I disagree.

E-rate 32

E-rate Learning LMS Course 32

Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. As an aside, I think we have massively overcomplicated online learning. Now I disagree.

E-rate 32

E-rate LMS Learning Course 32

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

Report 111

Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

ITEM: Over the past several years a group of small colleges, members of the Council of Independent Colleges ( CIC ), experimented with sharing upper-level humanities seminars with each other. This year a new cluster of CIC upper-level humanities seminar cross-campus teaching has begun. Here are some examples. ” ( More here ).

Trends 74

Trends MOOC Course Outcomes 74

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. If people found something of value in an online course that can inform their work—even if they didn’t earn the certificate—I see that as a net positive.

MOOC 146

MOOC Coursera Course Comparison 146

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Students take an entrance assessment and grade it together as a class. Students are then given the opportunity to attend a teacher-led session around the topics addressed in the assessment. Yet instead of the teacher dictating who needs to be at the seminar, each student decides if he or she needs additional help.

Competency Based Learning 81

Competency Based Learning Learning Assessment Groups 81

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Wu Jianzhong Successfully Promoting Your Print and eBook Collections Through Social Networking - Abbe Waldron, Library Media Specialist/Educational Technologist What about second year seminar? Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go!

Libraries 51

Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

Coursera 108

Coursera MOOC Education Khan Academy 108