edWeb.net

AUGUST 24, 2020

Based on evidence with both elementary and secondary school-aged students, summer slide can typically equate to one month of learning loss. Students from families classified as low socioeconomic status are often more impacted by that summer slide and have more significant learning gaps. Why, What, and How. Join the Community.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality.

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” But “online teacher” is a profession that predates the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Moody’s said students who might have otherwise transferred from a community college to an in-state institution might be enticed by the cheaper tuition, the convenience of online learning and the easy credit transfer policy and enroll at Southern New Hampshire instead. “It’s a dynamic, challenging environment.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Thousands more work for transportation companies that contract with public schools, colleges and private employers. 210,000 — The number of bus drivers working directly for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. In moving from classroom-based instruction to online instruction, the role of the faculty member changes from the content presenter to the facilitator of online learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success. Dr. Dana T.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

But then he pursued a career in business, first at a strategy consulting firm, and later working his way up to CEO of a tech company called Snapfish, which did photo sharing and hosting and printing and that kind of thing before Instagram existed. And that was really the point. We had to actually design an entire system [to do these].

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whether it was participating in device-day pickup or hosting and coordinating meet-the-teacher drive-throughs, the entire district staff stepped up to provide for nearly 61,000 students. Colorado vendors and school districts are required by the state to facilitate safe online learning experiences.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The thing that is really special about our teacher PD program is that we meet them where their content is. Over the past few years, there has been an explosion of online “learn how to code” tools, from Code.org to Khan Academy. We go through Scratch, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Ok, so they have a lot of experience.

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Khan Academy STEM Training Secondary 60

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

.” Equating personalized learning simply with pacing is “a fairly large problem,” according to Susan Patrick, the president and CEO of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. They set individual learning goals, follow up and discuss progress. ” I also talked to Ted Dintersmith.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

You may know their main product, the Brightspace Learning Management System. I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. So please check out their website at d2l.com/pulsepodcast to learn more. Does your product work equally as well with online learning?

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

You may know their main product, the Brightspace Learning Management System. I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. So please check out their website at d2l.com/pulsepodcast to learn more. Does your product work equally as well with online learning?

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Professional Learning Video Learning LMS 52

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) There’s more data about online education down in the “research” section at the bottom. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Meet the New Mega-University.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) However, the questions have largely stayed the same: Do technologies ensure quality learning and positive student outcomes? (Distance education took place via. Do they help or hurt underrepresented students?

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EdTech Student Data Privacy MOOC Policies 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Even before a deluge of fibs and fakery swamped our recent election cycle, Wineburg and company realized that readers of online news need many of the same skills used by a good historian, such as identifying the sources of claims and asking questions about their evidence. My students are all about social media.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” ” Shares in for-profit higher education companies were up on news of Trump’s election. Via Politico : “Meet Trump’s Cabinet-in-waiting.”

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Education Common Core Company Facebook 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” “How Can VR be Used for Learning?”

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