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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. ” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. On a recent day, Wallace, now 17, sat quietly reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and looking up information about the poem on a computer. The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century.

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When using data to predict outcomes, consider the ethical dilemmas, new report urges

The Hechinger Report

Colleges and universities that use sophisticated data systems to analyze and guide students must be careful to avoid ethical dilemmas that can arise, like pigeonholing students unfairly or underestimating their abilities, according to a new report that analyzed common pitfalls of these systems. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. “We

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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For anxious students, a teacher who comes to your house might be the answer

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Rebecca Conley with Maine Public for The Hechinger Report. Teacher Juliana Rothschild said that because she can individualize projects for each student, she can tie their interests into their learning. English-language arts, informational text, instructional writing.”.

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

Edsurge

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 This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May.