Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both.

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Digital Divide Broadband Report Accessibility 218

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We also work in partnership with the state’s broadband office, Broadband Ohio. The United Way of Greater Cincinnati received an FCC Outreach grant, which has allowed our team to bring awareness of the ACP to the regions we serve. Q: Can you tell us how the United Way of Greater Cincinnati is advocating for ACP renewal?

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Today we joined Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin as she announced the Oklahoma Connect and Learn Initiative , a coordinated effort to bring high-speed broadband and digital learning opportunities to schools across the state. We want to see all students in Oklahoma—and across the country—get online at speeds that can support digital learning.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 30, 2019

Robust broadband that fully supports digital learning requires that each part of a district’s network be working in unison and at full capacity. If one or more of the pieces of the network is broken or underperforming, then high-speed broadband and therefore rich, digital learning content cannot reach students’ devices.

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Broadband Digital Learning Accessibility Meeting 108

EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Of course, the trend for hybrid learning (which combines both classroom and virtual teaching settings) was accelerated during lockdown, this is here to stay even though cases and lockdown measures are declining. The Rise of Hybrid Environments.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

In Arizona, the House Education Committee introduced HB2421 , a bill allowing for schools to create distance learning courses. According to the proposal, a school may apply for a “reimbursement fee” to cover the cost of the course, to be collected from the school district or charter where students are enrolled.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 155

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2023

The reality, of course, is always going to be different. We realized that these markets were being poorly underserved, and for a lot of different reasons—for instance, it’s incredibly difficult to run broadband out to locations in the middle of nowhere. So it is when discussing the idea of digital equity.

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Digital Divide Broadband eBook Adaptive Learning 91

Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She mentions looking forward to incorporating our self-paced course, LearnACP , to empower even more library staff with a certification that equips them to support successful enrollment in the benefit.

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Libraries Broadband Chromebook Mobility 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. Unity and Unreal), blockchain and, of course, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

In Albemarle County, Virginia, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, radio towers rise above an apple orchard on Carters Mountain, outside Charlottesville. We’ve kind of realized that schools aren’t necessarily the best at operating broadband networks, so we should let people specialize.”.

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Broadband Education Policies Digital Divide 91

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 17, 2023

Defined by the National Education Association , digital equity ensures all school-aged children have the basic resources — broadband internet and computer access — to meaningfully participate in remote learning from home. The difficulty, of course, is realizing a digital equity.

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Broadband Trends Survey Mobility 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Research indicates that the right message sent at the right time can change the course of a family’s success in school. Research indicates that the right message sent at the right time can change the course of a family’s success in school. Mini happens to be a chatbot. Build trust and improve family engagement with a chatbot.

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Tools Broadband Strategy Mobility 159

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

Madison Selby was already disappointed that her courses at the University of Washington were going online as part of the effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The differences between a well-planned online course and a classroom-based course that’s forced to adapt can be sizable. But adaptation has its limits.

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Broadband Education Course Report 142

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2018

Using videoconferencing systems, cloud-based collaboration learning platforms and satellite-based broadband communications , district leaders have given students access to better teachers and more diverse classes, EdTech reports. offers a plethora of online courses from teachers outside of the district.

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Classroom Broadband EdTech Blended Learning 228

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

As a district in a small, rural community, they suffered from the kind of broadband access issues that were spotlighted by the pandemic. Of course, that kind of high-tech surveillance in schools has raised privacy concerns.) Quite frankly, I’m embarrassed,” Caposey said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. While 92 percent of adults from households earning $75,000 or more per year say they have broadband internet at home, just 56 percent of adults from households earning below $30,000 say the same.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And there are indeed sharp disparities in home access to computers and reliable broadband service. Every student — not just the marginalized and disenfranchised — needs sound course design, sufficient student support and testing programs that make sense and protect integrity.

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Online Learning Accessibility Technology Learning 128

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

Check with your local broadband provider to see if they have free access programs. Google’s Be Internet Awesome –abbreviated course. Access community hotspots and open WiFi, often made available by local businesses who are eager to assist. When you have internet access, download work from Google Classroom to work offline. Keyboarding.

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Khan Academy LMS Broadband Digital Citizenship 246

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Years before the University of Phoenix launched its first online course in the U.S., powered by CompuServe, an early online service provider, the University of Toronto, achieved the historical distinction of running the world’s first-ever completely online course five years earlier in 1986. In the U.S.,

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 134

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop.

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Laptops Tablets Smartphone Mobility 204

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2023

The change would, of course, be biggest for the nearly 700,000 incarcerated adults who will gain access to federal funds this July through the expansion of the Second Chance Pell program , in terms of lower rates of recidivism and increased hope. The latest reports show that only 35 percent of state prisons provide college-level courses.

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Accessibility Broadband EdTech Policies 95

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. To prevent the lesson going off-course, make sure the technology you invest in has compatible software that is up-to-date and made to work with your hardware, which is intuitive and easy for you to use.

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How To Software Education EdTech 375

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Higher education, of course, is decidedly different from those consumer sectors. Consumers could place classified ads for free on sites such as Craigslist and advertisers could more efficiently reach their target audiences with digital advertising through Facebook or Google. Again, digital disruption had upended an industry.

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Industry Education Broadband Social Media 188

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In partnership with national non-profit EducationSuperHighway, NCTA, USTelecom, NTCA and their member companies will launch programs that enable school districts to identify and connect students without broadband. Since the pivot to remote learning began, many school districts have struggled to determine which families lack access at home.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She attends a highly resourced school with computer science courses, well-trained teachers and one computing device per student. Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home. Jennifer is in sixth grade. She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet.

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System EdTech Digital Divide Education 152

Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2017

This diversity is driven by: advancements in online learning system design, rapid roll-out of broadband world-wide, the changing dynamics of the labor market and. Where once high school graduates had a “College or Bust” mentality, today’s high school graduates have a surfeit of higher education options.

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Education Broadband Software Online Learning 196

Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

For example, there is no point spending thousands of dollars on new equipment if you don’t have the required WiFi connectivity, infrastructure or broadband speed for it. Find a system which hosts and/or recommends courses for staff CPD and logs appraisals and performance. Read more: Don’t forget about pedagogy when chasing technology!

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EdTech Classroom LMS Training 207

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

By offering high-quality, affordable online courses and programs, coupled with tuition assistance, ASU and Starbucks enabled thousands to become degree holders—debt free. Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms.

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Trends EdTech Education Company 180

Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

For instance if you only have one laptop with broadband access that requires a teacher sign-in, then look at designing project-based learning modules with teams of students where online research is simply one component of a larger project. Focus on the positive, work with what you have and get creative. Conclusion.

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Digital Divide Strategy Laptops Broadband 250

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As much as 50 percent of employees in the country could be working in roles that require programming or software skills by 2030, according to estimates in a 2016 report by the National Broadband Network and the Regional Australia Institute. Also new is Trilogy’s recent acquisition of Firehose Project, an online coding course.

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Training Broadband Company Education 131

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Of course, the fault lines exposed by the coronavirus were there long before the pandemic took hold of our classrooms, made manifest in stagnant student performance and college completion rates. Without the ability to chart a course, they will struggle to transition. Many offices were arguably ready to go online.

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Broadband Learning Course Accessibility 112

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

BIOZONE has just published an exciting new AP Environmental Science title (in print and eBook) dedicated to addressing the College Board’s new APES Course & Exam Description (2019). Limited broadband access may be an obstacle for many students. Increased incidence and severity of wildfires (California, Australia, Brazil, Siberia).

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2015

The district is hosting two week-long “Boot Camps,” one at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and one at University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, to introduce students to the academic challenges of AP courses. Next page: How the AP blended learning program is structured.

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Blended Learning Course Learning Mobility 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

The key constraint in the classroom is time, in the school day and over the course of the school year. A survey of schools and libraries done by the FCC in 2010 found that 80% reported that broadband services did not “fully meet their current needs.” We can evaluate a student’s progress and adjust plans as needed. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Khan Academy Learning Differentiated Instruction Broadband 161

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Over the next few months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. Digital Divides While some may end up with too much of the latest media, others are completely cut off, due to persistent lack of broadband. This is part 5.

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Digital Divide Social Media Broadband Analysis 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. Others lack access to broadband internet or can’t afford it. But Lindon is already imagining the possibilities, and the Appalachian culture course that she’d make mandatory for students seeking bachelor’s degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

An English teacher at Custer County’s public high school here, Glasscock wanted to take college courses to give herself more career options. About 3 million adults live more than 25 miles from a college or university and lack the sufficient internet speeds to take online courses, the Urban Institute reported in February. Rural ones.

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Broadband Education Accessibility Report 110