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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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—Katharine Meyer As residential colleges grapple with decisions about whether and how to continue offering online and hybrid courses , they may benefit from taking a look at student-engagement practices commonly used by their online-only counterparts. It is delivering information to students when they need it, in a timely fashion.”

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TeachingBooks, Sora and Pear Deck Announce Collaboration to Expand Student Engagement and Learning

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CLEVELAND – TeachingBooks.net today announced a unique collaboration with Pear Deck , providing expanded opportunities for student engagement and learning. Within the Pear Deck platform, educators can then supplement these digital books with TeachingBooks’ videos, author interviews, games and interactive discussions.

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Latest Enhancements to Discovery Education Services Drive Deeper Student Engagement 

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Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place—has announced a host of exciting updates to the company’s award-winning services. Together, these new enhancements drive deeper student engagement and offer even greater support to educators.

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New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District Renews Multiyear Partnership Driving Student Engagement in Science  

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This renewed collaboration ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to drive deeper student engagement in science instruction. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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A Student Improved a Classroom Tech Solution—So the Company Hired Him

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Tom Sargent, the information technology administrator at the King David School outside of Melbourne, had seen students try to tweak the school’s technology systems before. Using the video direct feature, teachers could paste in URLs and stream videos from supported sites like YouTube. Sargent liked the idea. “We

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How This Company Gives Voice — and Value — to Virtual Collaboration

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These VoiceThreads, as they are called, include images, video, and documents, and they provide the opportunity for teams of people to annotate using drawing tools, voice comments, written comments or video responses. VoiceThread is a cloud-based media tool that allows users to collaborate on and communicate around media presentations.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Most learning management platforms have built-in tools for students who need accommodations. If possible, teachers and professors should use multiple modes of conveying information (video, audio, text slides, etc.) There are efforts to collect and share offerings from companies that want to help impacted schools.

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