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Technology Quality Affects Online Learning

EdTech Magazine

While previous reports found that remote learning resulted in learning disruptions in K–12, it turns out that the quality of technology students have access to plays a significant role in online learning outcomes.

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How To Sustain Powerful Digital Learning for the Future

Digital Promise

The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools has implemented and advocated for equitable access to technologies to close the digital learning gap since its inception in 2011. Last year’s abrupt transition to remote learning impacted all levels of K-12 education. Budget & Funding Opportunities.

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Online Learning Is Not the Enemy

Edsurge

Is the prevailing takeaway from this brutal, oppressive year a shared aversion toward online learning? We need to proactively identify the ways in which remote learning can serve students just as well, if not better, than in-person experiences. That should give us all pause. That would’ve been nearly impossible.

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Why Emergency Online Learning Got Low Grades From Many College Students

Edsurge

Except that many students showed up resentful, taking digital courses only by force of circumstance, and the teaching they got did not always fit the medium. In a wide-ranging survey of about a thousand students and instructors, merely eight percent of those online during the crisis say their experience was very effective.

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Online learning can help schools retain students

eSchool News

Partnering with an experienced provider to offer high-quality online learning is one way traditional schools can give students more options—and it’s an important strategy for attracting and retaining families. Choices in modality Although some students fell behind during the shift to remote learning, others thrived.

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3 Ways edtech can help education get back on track

Neo LMS

As the education sector reflects on the last months of the school curriculum, it’s clear e-learning is key to providing disaster-proof education. Online learning gives proactive measures that make learning continue amidst calamities. Prioritize PD to support remote, hybrid, and in-person learning.

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Most Students and Faculty Prefer Face-To-Face Instruction, EDUCAUSE Surveys Find

Edsurge

The first, published in October, surveyed more than 40,000 students at 118 U.S. Among student respondents, 70 percent said they prefer mostly or completely face-to-face learning environments. The professors surveyed were even more partial to face-to-face classes, with 73 percent preferring them.

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