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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. .” Almost half of all Ontario secondary school teachers report using YouTube or video elements in their classrooms. Are universities adapting quick enough to this demand?

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

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Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

With almost all college and university students and faculty forced online during the pandemic lockdowns, researchers could take advantage of what became essentially an unprecedented randomized trial to study whether and how well online teaching works. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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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. 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. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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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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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Her schools is teaching students to set goals and take charge of their learning. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. When Dan D.

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Movie magic could be used to translate for the deaf

The Hechinger Report

About three quarters of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in America are mainstreamed, learning alongside hearing students in schools and classes where sign-language interpreters are often in short supply. That reading deficit slows their learning in every other subject. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.