Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. So this summer might be the right time to learn a little more about online pedagogy. Ana Donaldson (book), gives practical guidance.

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Course E-rate Flipped Classroom Education 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2021

This is all the more relevant to educators, who will need to be leading lessons, seminars and one-on-one study sessions on a daily basis. Mix things up with online learning resources & special events.

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Laptops Digital Citizenship Strategy Resources 328

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Further, re-conceptualizing and converting a traditional classroom course to an online course doesn’t necessarily make it better or worse. And what are the lessons for teaching – and learning – in the future? Research about online education. An abundance of studies have examined online education.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I loved my colleagues on my social studies team; we shared resources and supported each other. A Socratic seminar? Teachers are constantly engaging with others—students, parents, and colleagues—yet they are the only ones with a complete understanding of their classrooms and practices. As a result, being a teacher can be lonely.

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Classroom Strategy Professional Learning Libraries 260

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2018

This way of learning is attributed to the advent of the internet which has impacted the adoption of online learning software to facilitate formal education. LMSs are now being accepted as one of the ways to learn smartly. Seminars held online, are called webinars.

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LMS Gamification Social Media Learning 159

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Discover the wealth of free online learning courses for educators offered through Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. During his time studying abroad in Paris, he delved into the study of African-American literature and observed the differences in the education system between Paris and his hometown Miami, Florida.

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Conference Secondary Trends Digital Divide 67

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

In one study, 85 percent of teachers reported that work-life imbalance was affecting their ability to teach. Yet we have to partake in multiple seminars, read links related to online instruction, legal requirements in special ed, due process, timelines, etc. Everyone needs to be reminded again about how the brain works. ”

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Survey Study Report Twitter 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This pandemic fall semester has understandably raised anxieties about whether students will receive valuable instruction in the academic topics they study in class. But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek.

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How To Course Study Groups 114

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. As we look forward to a fall semester teaching entirely online, we are translating those hard-fought lessons to the complex task ahead. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2022

For instance, physical textbooks have been replaced by online learning modules. Classroom-style lectures have given way to self-learning. Scaling Learning Opportunities . With EdTech innovations , there is no limit to how many learners can attend a lecture and access learning resources.

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Trends EdTech eBook Learning 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 14, 2024

Craddock has conducted seminars at the White House, the Bay Area MakerFaire, and South Carolina Association of School Libraries. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, recognized for her expertise in studying information seeking behaviors among students from underrepresented communities in makerspaces.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. They were listing some of the silver linings that have come with the shift to remote learning in the wake of coronavirus. I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing.

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Common Core Report Video Training 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom.

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Education Course Report Policies 127

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We see many students in their twenties who are choosing to go to work and have lives that are complicated by full-time work, full-time study. The nature of jobs changing over time has created some changes in the adult learning population. At our own institution [we] see a bi-modal population of adult learners.

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Assessment Course Examples Resources 110

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2020

Liz Willen: Well, interestingly two of the high school students I spoke with are going to be studying nursing. Some parents are demanding refunds because the experience their students are having this last semester, these online experiences, have been shoddy. It’s not the same thing as being in a classroom or in a seminar.

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Survey Report Course Secondary 91

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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Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

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.

Learning 33

Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instructional Designers, technologists, and online learning specialists are in high demand across all levels of education as it shifts online. Dr. Bryant is an active member of Educause, and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC); she also served as an Exemplary Course Program reviewer for Blackboard, Inc.

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Libraries Conference Online Learning OER 28

Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Technology is becoming so prominent in education that it’s now a study option for aspiring teachers. Those majoring in technology education will study technological systems and design their own. Join a professional organization.

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Technology Education Laptops EdTech 230

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

And there’s no question that witnessing their loneliness, difficulties with online learning and seemingly endless hours on social media has been enormously stressful for the adults who care about them the most." This parent seminar is like no other. Caitlin Moulding “Chris and Greg’s parent seminars are not to be missed!

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How To Course Study Strategy 48

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

You purposely take a brain break before the social studies lesson, but students are calling out before you can get to the main idea. I got this idea from a trauma-informed teaching seminar I went to as part of my professional development. Then, I let students decorate the outside with paper and hot glue objects onto it.

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Strategy Classroom Meeting Exercises 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Toward the end of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Sophie Fogel spent every night studying alone in her dorm room, eating lukewarm takeout meals from the cafeteria and wondering why she bothered going away to college in the first place. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong.

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Study Guidelines Strategy Report 102

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

You are studying what you need to study at your level.”. Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

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. They explain that they either come to MOOCs with specific learning goals that they selectively pursue or are simply not motivated to earn a certificate.

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MOOC Coursera Course Comparison 137

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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Trends MOOC Course Outcomes 74

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Our students and staff embrace, study, and promote social justice and protect the rights of others. Equity was a major driver in implementing competency based learning. Yet instead of the teacher dictating who needs to be at the seminar, each student decides if he or she needs additional help. social justice.

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Competency Based Learning Learning Assessment Groups 77

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? Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go! Yildiz, Faculty Come take a tour!

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

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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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

About half of them were enrolled in online degree programs and take all of their classes on the internet. The other half took one or more of their college classes online as they were also studying in traditional classrooms on a campus. Related: Five studies find online courses are not working well at community colleges.

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Course Policies Study Online Learning 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

A year later, after a little more research, I went to the Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston, full of bespectacled profs with their tweed and pretension. But it’s hard to discuss the ethics of online learning when one of our own can’t get wifi in Eastern Europe. I loved it. I didn’t see a single undergraduate.

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Adaptive Learning Facebook Conference MOOC 60