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Why Mission — Not Money — Will Lead Colleges to Truly Innovative Online Learning

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While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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What Online Learning Reveals About Innovation in Higher Education

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Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification. For example, Christensen recalled his $2, staticky childhood transistor radio. But it was exactly what Christensen wanted.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

“I remember thinking that the school systems must have a great list of recommended online learning,” she said. Everyone’s a different learner,” said Joffe, “and that’s often overlooked in online learning.”. Joffe had to use her own experience with online learning to make her selections for the database.

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Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment?

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The company, Clusive, Inc., The company describes itself on its website as the first e-learning platform built for and by the blind and visually impaired. The company acts as a training provider to state vocational rehab and blind services agencies across the country.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. a far smaller number grant degrees online. Years before the University of Phoenix launched its first online course in the U.S.,

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10 Top Companies That Love To Hire Teachers

EdNews Daily

If you love working in education but are tired of dodging the all-searching eye of administration, filtering out the angst in the teacher’s lounge, K12 is always looking for teachers to lead their online and in-person classes. K12 online private schools are available in most US states and many other countries as well.

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Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning

The Hechinger Report

In New York City, for example, 19,000 students who had requested devices still didn’t have them by late April, according to reporting by Chalkbeat and WNYC. He estimated some 600,000 students are still waiting for a computing device, while 300,000 to 400,000 students have no way to get online and need access to an internet hotspot.