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Online Learning vs. Classroom Learning Research

eSchool News

According to a study by the National Education Policy Center, students engaged in face-to-face instruction tend to achieve higher academic outcomes compared to those in online environments. Students can access course materials and complete assignments at their own pace and convenience, accommodating busy schedules and diverse learning styles.

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Cut price education?

Learning with 'e's

Call me a fool, but I would rather offer no courses at all, than put my name to a course that is inferior due to cost cutting. Adrian Prandle, education policy advisor at the teaching union ATL gets it right when he says: 'Developments such as podcast learning should be in addition to time with lecturers, not instead of it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education and Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development , respectively.” ” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? Because of course.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” More on the bill via Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The big ed-tech news this week is, of course, that Betsy DeVos is considering allowing schools to use federal funds to arm teachers and staff. There are more stories about some of DeVos’s other policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. ” CPS is, of course, the Chicago Public Schools.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. .” ” So, what does count as a real class – acting class or otherwise?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via NPR : “ Trump ’s International Policies Could Have Lasting Effects On Higher Ed.” ” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. More about Trump’s immigration policies in a separate section below. ” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law.