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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

Edsurge

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” Just a few years old, it’s still a “fledgling journal,” Archambault says.

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Hyped Up and Empowered: Hyperdocs Bootcamp

EdTechTeam

Before the HyperDoc Bootcamp I purchased and read the HyperDoc Handbook last September. We deepened our knowledge and understanding by exploring resources, studying solid pedagogy, and best practices. Check out our other Online Learning Opportunities! I scoured the hyperdocs.co My HyperDoc is intended for Back to School.

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Online Learning: Why Libraries Could Be the Key to MOOCs’ Success

MindShift

For all the promises of online courses disrupting education, completion rates are notoriously low. Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. Facilitators found that four-to-nine people is a good number for a group.

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How Online Book Read-Alouds Can Help Students’ Literacy and Connection During Social Distancing 

MindShift

Since many districts didn’t have a digital learning plan in place for an event like a global pandemic, they are scraping together varied approaches of online learning that are evolving as the situation changes. We’re building the plane while it’s in the air,” Paradise said of teachers trying to adjust to online learning.

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IUT Conference 2018 – Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design

Learning Confluence

Here are some essential artefacts to learn from in the meantime. When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other. technologies in higher education: A collective case study.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

Conclusion Using this model as a starting point, it is important that any study on collaborative workplace writing looks at the different types of knowledge that are being used to accomplish the writing task. The dynamic nature of conflict: A longitudinal study of intragroup conflict and group performance. Northcraft, G., & Neale, M.

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