Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

The primary source of their frustration and stress pertained to not feeling supported by their administration around challenges related to meeting all of their students’ learning needs, high-stakes testing, an ever-changing curriculum and work/life balance. Everyone needs to be reminded again about how the brain works. ”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2020

Liz Willen is editor-in-chief of The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news organization that covers K-12 and post-secondary education. In recent weeks, Willen has been speaking with seniors and their families to learn more about their decision-making process while keeping a close eye on the schools rapidly changing responses.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Students come to college with varying numbers of friends of different religious or non-religious traditions, with 93 percent reported having at least one friend holding a different worldview identity. College is an optimal time for students to make and sustain friendships across differences, according to our data.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Investors and Entrepreneurs—From the 'Innovate' Newsletter This year was a busy one for the edtech industry from the standpoint of our AT&T State of Edtech report, which delved into funding deals and product development. Amy Ahearn, senior innovation associate at +Acumen , thinks Slack could add a human touch to online courses.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

For example, evidence from the Florida Virtual School program shows students did as well or only nominally better than their peers who did not participate in the virtual learning program (Chingos & Schwerdt, 2014). Some of these results are due to the varied levels of effectiveness that a virtual learning experience might offer.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

For example, evidence from the Florida Virtual School program shows students did as well or only nominally better than their peers who did not participate in the virtual learning program (Chingos & Schwerdt, 2014). Some of these results are due to the varied levels of effectiveness that a virtual learning experience might offer.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Indeed, a 2019 report from the U.S. Department of Education concluded that adult learners need their own edtech tools instead of being expected to learn from the same resources designed for children and teens. For example, we have programs where we have many experienced people who are in a corporate- or union-sponsored program.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

According to a much-cited report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the proportion of emergency room visits that were mental health-related for 12 to 17 year olds increased by 31 percent from April to October 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. This parent seminar is like no other.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful. It never does.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. They need to improve the online experience if they are going to continue in this manner.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

ITEM: Over the past several years a group of small colleges, members of the Council of Independent Colleges ( CIC ), experimented with sharing upper-level humanities seminars with each other. This year a new cluster of CIC upper-level humanities seminar cross-campus teaching has begun. Here are some examples. ” ( More here ).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. Our users self-report these behaviors in post-course surveys and qualitative interviews.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Yet instead of the teacher dictating who needs to be at the seminar, each student decides if he or she needs additional help. By putting the onus on students to reflect on their own level, the teacher is empowering them to be the active driver of their learning. ST Math and Lexia Core 5), and their own interests.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Wu Jianzhong Successfully Promoting Your Print and eBook Collections Through Social Networking - Abbe Waldron, Library Media Specialist/Educational Technologist What about second year seminar?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The other half took one or more of their college classes online as they were also studying in traditional classrooms on a campus. A new January 2019 paper from two researchers, one of whom served in the Obama Administration, documents the rise of online learning and reviews a large body of academic research on it.

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