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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

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Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Department of Education brief.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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.) – for supplementing online coursework with innovative projects like virtual makerspaces, STEAM fairs, coding workshops, drone-enabled virtual field trips, and more. About Fuel Education Fuel Education® partners with school districts to drive personalized learning and transform the education experience inside and outside the classroom.

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'Lost in the Cracks' Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth

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The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter. They were not at the juvenile facility center.

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Movie magic could be used to translate for the deaf

The Hechinger Report

That reading deficit slows their learning in every other subject. It also limits the usefulness of closed captioning for multimedia course material. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Read more about Blended Learning. You would think it would be easier, with all the amazing animation in movies.