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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

I also know that that I too have a lot to learn, even though I’ve been teaching online since 2006 and have collaborated globally for years. So, last week I called one of my major sponsors – a distance learning professional development company – Advancement Courses. They know how to do distance learning.

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Edtech Companies Need to Engage Families Now

Digital Promise

Edtech companies need to simplify their explanations about what their products offer learners, which should move beyond short-term, “freemium” possibilities. Parents and caregivers grew tired of unclear messages intended to help that often led to frustration and disillusionment with online learning.

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New Video Series Given to Teachers to Help with Online Learning

EdNews Daily

In today’s Freemium pay model used by EdTech companies, free only goes so far. Reported in a Forbes article by education expert and Forbes columnist Robyn Shulman, the column How This Technology Sales Leader Is Guiding Teachers Toward Instructional Enlightenment interviewed Riefstahl about his […].

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OPINION: Equity in online learning is about much more than technology access

The Hechinger Report

Even before the global pandemic pushed many colleges and universities to teach students remotely, online learning had become an increasingly important part of higher education. Yet, as this spring’s pivot to online learning showed us, equity remains a significant challenge.

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How Educators Can Empower Students Through Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

With education turning on the technology skills of students and teachers, its important to gain a rudimentary understanding of foundational technology. I mean the basics of how to use the tech tools that are driving learning. Online learning has been shown to increase retention and tends to take less time.

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

Edsurge

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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Startup Class Technologies Bets Big on the Future of Online Learning (and Zoom)

Edsurge

It may not seem too surprising that one of the best-funded edtech startups in the past year of pandemic has been a company that piggybacks on the success of Zoom to add tools for running online classes. We let you replicate the physical class in an online environment.” Chasen says he has learned from that experience as well.