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Why Emergency Online Learning Got Low Grades From Many College Students

Edsurge

In a wide-ranging survey of about a thousand students and instructors, merely eight percent of those online during the crisis say their experience was very effective. Some even argue that online students can come away from a virtual course feeling closer to their online classmates than with their on-campus peers.

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

Marketplace K-12

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Training for student assessments: 27 percent.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

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Fill out this five-minute survey , and you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. Is it sustainable?

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Overall, the rise of online learning — from MOOCs to Khan Academy — makes “blended” learning that combines computer and live instruction feel normal to students. Even now, curricula in some cutting-edge tech fields exists online (not on campus), making Silicon Valley a driver of high-level training.

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Online Education: Will it Make Us Smarter? #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

[link] Predictions are 1/2 of higher Ed will be online in the next 10 years. How do we assess quality with all of the online education providers that are out there? Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Adult learning space, higher Ed, and K-12 all have different needs so they create different markets.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

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