eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

As learning becomes more accessible, credit recovery programs are evolving. Online learning is playing an increasingly important part in credit recovery for students with a variety of academic needs, according to a new report from the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

As Clayton Christensen recently said to me, just as people have taken the phrase “disruptive innovation” to justify whatever they already wanted to do, people are using the phrase personalized learning—and a whole host of other terms—in a similar manner. Peak of Inflated Expectations: Personalized Learning. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you teach using a learning management system (LMS) you most likely add all your classes to the platform. Once you structure your lessons and your students get used to your requirements, continuing with the same pattern makes the teaching and learning process more straightforward. Organize classes. Welcome students to class.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). Students are generally guided by the teacher and parents throughout their learning journey. What are the most important executive functioning skills? Regulating emotions.

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eSpark

AUGUST 4, 2021

With so many options for online learning available, one thing that can set a program apart from the others is a curriculum grounded in proven educational research. We are proud to announce that eSpark has earned the Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise.

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eSpark

AUGUST 4, 2021

With so many options for online learning available, one thing that can set a program apart from the others is a curriculum grounded in proven educational research. We are proud to announce that eSpark has earned the Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In this context, educators must be especially mindful that our uses of technology do not undermine meaningful learning. Relationships underpin all of the “Big Six” experiences, which include “a professor who made me excited about learning” and “professors who cared about me as a person.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The goal is not to remove the obstacles from learning. Believe it or not, “wheel-spinning” is now a technical term and has become a topic of interest to researchers who study how children learn. One study showed that a “wheel-spinning detector” could identify a high percentage of the students who had spinning wheels.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This profile is the first in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. They created 2Rev as an education design lab—a place where designs for innovative learning models could be developed and tested.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

The only goal is to learn the material, sooner or later. But, in general, students work at their own pace through worksheets, online lessons and small-group discussions with teachers. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

This experiment, just getting under way, is called the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning, named for the foundation that is underwriting it. This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

This experiment, just getting under way, is called the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning, named for the foundation that is underwriting it. This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. Via Business Insider : “Online learning may be the future of education – we compared 4 platforms that are leading the way.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This past school year, when students could take four classes online, it cost districts up to $366 per student per semester, according to the Utah State Office of Education. They want them at school learning. They want them at school learning. Read more about blended learning. Most parents want their kids to go to school.

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