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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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And that has led more professors to experiment with flipped classrooms , where they can record short lecture videos that they ask students to watch as homework, leaving more class time for more active learning such as working in groups. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?

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From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Or so I thought.

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