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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

We are specifically talking just e-learning for this webinar. Online Learning Best Practices – Webinar Overview Join Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher and three top course designers from Advancement Courses. She is also a former teacher and principal, leading one of the first elementary STEM schools in the state of Iowa.

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Sudden Shift to Online Learning Revealed Gaps in Digital Literacy, Study Finds

Edsurge

The study, done by education professors at Bridgeport State University, posed five open-ended questions: What has been your experience? That’s a major takeaway from a survey of more than 700 teachers in 40 states conducted this spring, just after schools first shifted to remote instruction due to the pandemic. What are your challenges?

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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

Waterford

The challenges of online learning are real, but there are some basic steps teachers and families can take to encourage educational success. Examples could include encouraging the student to enjoy a break after an assignment or to change locations by studying outside on a nice day. United States Department of Education.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. I remember thinking that the school systems must have a great list of recommended online learning,” she said.

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When 7 Family Members Continue Their Studies While Sheltered In Place

Edsurge

With schools and colleges across the country shut down for COVID-19, one Massachusetts family finds their house bursting with learners trying to keep their studies going. “I McLaughlin describes the situation as a kind of accidental lab experiment in how well different forms of online learning work and how different kids respond.

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students. No small studies were allowed.

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