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Transforming online learning experiences

Learning with 'e's

Perhaps they still see it as a poor substitute, or a second rate method of teaching. Content is still king in their minds, and everything relies on their knowledge, and the ' delivery ' of learning. I used that quote this morning when I presented online at a conference hosted by Near East University in Turkey.

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Attitudes About Homeschooling May Get Unexpected Boost From a Year of Remote Learning

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education conferences—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. Home Is Where the Homeschooling Is Could greater public approval of homeschooling be an unexpected result of the pandemic’s forced experiment in remote online learning? parents with kids ages 4-18 who experienced online learning during the pandemic.

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

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So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

His work around the study of social and cognitive presence in distance learning contexts has been cited many times, and his research has led to a number of high profile keynote speech invitations around the globe. When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning?

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The Greatest Challenge Facing School Leaders in a Digital World

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That is to say, the data show that in-person environments nearly always have higher rates of bullying, harassment, and abuse/predation than digital environments. They can raise money to address community concerns, start their own businesses or nonprofits, or create websites, e-books, and code that benefit others.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. We can extend the learning day. Photo: Michael Craddock. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — We can flip the classroom.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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