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Online Learning vs. Classroom Learning Research

eSchool News

Advocates of online learning cite flexibility and access, while proponents of in-person instruction emphasize social interaction and hands-on learning. Advocates of online learning cite flexibility and access, while proponents of in-person instruction emphasize social interaction and hands-on learning.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

In light of the present and future challenges students face, our complacency does them a great disservice. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. It’s a matter of equity.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. For some who have tried to return, a serious problem has presented itself. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Now Williams and school staff are heading back out into the field, trying to relocate the siblings and other children who’ve gone missing and reengage them in learning this fall. They replaced the hodgepodge of learning platforms and apps with more uniform systems, eliminating multiple passwords and making them easier to navigate.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. They were present in the physical sense, but their focus and commitment were clearly elsewhere. How do you know learning is happening?

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. For many students it’s been a lonely year, and algebra is tougher to learn while peering at a screen, say teachers and researchers. “I

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