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Addressing the Five Key Areas of Professional Development through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

Last year, Digital Promise, with generous support from Google, launched the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) to continue its effort to close the Digital Learning Gap. Effective PD includes five key attributes: Content focus, active learning, sustained duration, collective participation and coherence.

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An overview of active Learning.

Linways Technologies

Class Discussion : Class discussion is one of the most common strategies that promote active learning. Open-ended discussions always keep students engaged. Flipped Classroom is a widely used method for implementing the active learning process. The students can experiment and experience with this active learning strategy.

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How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education

Edsurge

As many prestigious universities that had previously looked down on the idea of digital learning put their content online, the entire dynamic of inclusion has shifted. No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation.

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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

Edsurge

But if you need evidence of student engagement, you’ll need to design your online course to stimulate it, with mini-quizzes and mini-exercises, among other interactive activities.” Before they click on Zoom, Sosulski says instructors must recognize that they won’t get the feedback they usually expect—in person real eye-contact.

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How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education

Edsurge

As many prestigious universities that had previously looked down on the idea of digital learning put their content online, the entire dynamic of inclusion has shifted. No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation.

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Colleges Have Embraced Online Learning. Will That Open Remote Teaching Opportunities for Faculty?

Edsurge

Consider how intellectually electrifying it might be for an underfunded college to recruit an eminent professor from a top-ranked school abroad to teach remotely—to deliver a lecture, attend a daylong seminar, or teach a semester-long course. Conventional instructors often limit class discussion the minute the bell rings.

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Verso

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Firstly, while you may not want or need to include every single aspect for every discussion, the formatting suggestions Verso provides is excellent scaffolding to ensure students engage in high quality discourse. I often participated in school and district technology initiatives--Digital Leader Network, iTeam, etc.,

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