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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. You can learn anywhere,” she said.

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50 Alternatives To Lecturing

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We were going to include several videos and frameworks, but that makes the post clumsy and slow-loading on smaller mobile devices. I nquiry-based learning. Mobile learning. Gamified learning (gamification). “Flipped-class” learning. Face-to-Face Driver blended learning.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

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Each of us has seen headlines about an online school providing an unaccredited program that looks like a “diploma mill,” or a completely mismanaged school administration that was not prepared for high student mobility or other realities of online learning.

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