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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

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No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. So this summer might be the right time to learn a little more about online pedagogy. Ana Donaldson (book), gives practical guidance.

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Active Learning Strategies for Students

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This strategy promotes active participation, collaboration, and peer learning. Problem-Based Learning (PBL): PBL tasks students with solving real-world problems or case studies, requiring them to apply knowledge and critical thinking skills to develop solutions.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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The ten teams met once each in San Francisco, Austin, and New York City and also worked with Collaborative staff and consultants locally over the course of the 2016-17 school year. A second iteration of The Collaborative started last month. Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative.