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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

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Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment?

Edsurge

Despite being capable of working a variety of jobs, people who are blind or visually impaired tend to have low job placement rates, low salaries and an unusually high underemployment rate. The company describes itself on its website as the first e-learning platform built for and by the blind and visually impaired.

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Distance learning during the pandemic: Improvise. Adapt. Overcome!

Neo LMS

A version of this post was originally published in the April 2020 E-Learning Supplement of Education Today. Read more: Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning. How an LMS supports distance learning. This helps smooth the transition to distance learning for everyone. Challenging.

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

Or maybe you’re actually kind of intrigued by this whole online learning thing. Either way, if you think it’s time to improve your online teaching game, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to your summer crash course in online education. MJ Bishop, associate vice chancellor and director of the William E.

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Virtual Virtuoso: Optimal user experience features for e-learning

Neo LMS

We’re all feeling out of our depth right now as we contend with the fear of the virus, the anxiety of an economic shutdown, and, now, the virtual remaking (pun intended) of our education system. If this spring semester of impromptu remote learning has taught us anything, it’s that not everyone takes immediately to online learning.

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8 Tips to Make Web Content Filtering More Effective at Your School

Lightspeed Systems

Lightspeed Systems has been a leader in the web content filtering category for over twenty years, and when you have been in a space for that long, you uncover a lot of tips to share with others. Some are learned by asking clients, some are learned by years of observation, and still others are learned from the hard lessons of trial and error.

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

Edsurge

And while systems might not continue to operate as 100 percent virtual schools in a post-COVID world, better access to learning technology is no longer negotiable in this increasingly-digital world. of California’s Public Contract Code only addressed online learning in the context of surplus technology and nonprofit computer labs.

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