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

Edsurge

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? Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey finds homeschooling rates have more than doubled during the pandemic. Two surveys make it look that way. percent to 11.1

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Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

Edsurge

COVID-19 shed light on the huge gap in policy relating to tech and infrastructure provisioning—what many are now referring to as a civil rights issue. Then, there are states that lacked laws prior to 2020, but began responding to the at-home learning requirement with new legislation for future needs. Jennifer E.

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Copyleaks Inc Partners with Canvas LMS to Offer Plagiarism Detection using AI and Machine Learning.

eSchool News

As more schools adapt to an e-learning environment this fall, teachers are both emphasizing the importance of academic integrity, as well as taking extra precautions to check that students have written original work.

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What is adaptive e-Learning?

IAD Learning

The term adaptive e-Learning refers to a set of techniques oriented to offer online students a personal and unique experience, with the final goal of maximizing their performance. S tudent model : Contains information about the knowledge, capabilities, preferences, learning style, etc. The Architecture.

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Network Essentials: Successful Procurement

Education Superhighway

Although the E-rate program provides substantial financial support, there is sometimes still a “gap” in funding that cannot be covered using the district’s existing budget. Having reference costs from your peers and at least three different vendor RFP bids can help your team negotiate the best price.

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Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform instructional design

IT Bill

For the past several years, online learning in higher education has focused on delivering a highly structured learning environment. In the CBE environment students enter a program of study at different times and progress at different rates. References: A. CC-BY by Oliver Clark on Flickr. Kozlow & A.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take. Possiblye the FCC will extend E-rate funding to poorer areas. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Casey answered by referring to what metaphors of change tell us about our attitudes.

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