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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

Students need to be able to learn at their own pace to better grasp and retain information Self-paced, personalized learning allows them to gradually accumulate knowledge and competencies according to their needs and level. . At the same time, each student has a different learning pace.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. Calculus and Latin as examples. But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. She cited A.P.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

That’s one reason why the foundation has been pondering whether and how to revise its time-based learning standard for a few years now. For example, the University of Delaware recently announced plans to extend classes by five minutes to comply with federal requirements built around credit hours.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Now, with learning back in person in many places in the country, Lindsay’s experience keeping kids mostly on track, even during the most chaotic of times, offers lessons to other districts. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Students on a break at Lindsay High School.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. So do most ed-tech companies. District of Columbia Public Schools.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

Neo LMS

These classes also open the door to self-paced personalized learning. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Intelligent learning platform benefits for K-12 schools. Yet, this is not all. .

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

“Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”. Content migrating from Activate has been largely built and published by high-performing public charter schools, such as Summit Public Schools and High Tech High.