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Old, Slow Laptops Are Sabotaging College Student Success

Edsurge

To be able to get a smooth picture and the ability to interact via any of the more common softwares—Blackboard, Zoom, Teams—you need to have a device that is able to lift and deliver those experiences,” says Paige Francis, CIO and vice president for IT at the University of Tulsa. Christopher Brooks, director of research for EDUCAUSE.

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Online Learning During COVID-19

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When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. Everyone would have their tablet or laptop.

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Sustaining online learning during COVID-19

eSchool News

Everyone would have their tablet or laptop. We are now in 2020, living through the COVID-19 pandemic and in the remote and online environment predicted in 2015. Related content: 4 possible COVID-19 learning realities. Three phases of online learning during COVID-19.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. In the U.S., Elsewhere, not everyone was as fortunate.

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Teaching on Laptops and Digital Whiteboard Might Not Be as Different as You Think. 

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Most teachers and students stay at home and conduct distance learning. Teachers are worried about student engagement and interaction online. Meanwhile, students find themselves hard to adapt to online learning, and learning outcomes drop significantly. Easily combine online resources and multimedia, never a dream.

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In one house, two brothers with disabilities had opposite pandemic experiences

The Hechinger Report

It’s the same Monday to Friday routine: Get up, change clothes, have breakfast, and turn on the laptops. Did you turn on your laptops? There is a sign on the wall with the daily routine and a blackboard with the numbers from 1 to 10. He turns on his laptop and waits anxiously for his classmates to say, “Good morning.”

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“You’re So Distracted You Probably (Don’t) Think This Session is about You!” - Classroom 2.0 Saturday LIVE! Show with Jason Neiffer

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Webinar Description: Chances are you are reading this description on a digital device: laptop, cellphone or tablet. A doctoral candidate at the University of Montana, Jason is studying open education resources, online learning and the impact of internet filtering on classroom technology integration. LIVE on February 11, 2017.