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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

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In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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And so the online and hybrid courses these institutions spun up during the pandemic came with little of the scaffolding that experts recommend. This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It

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A South Texas University Turns to Online Courses to Help Commuters, Students in Mexico

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Judith Ruiz, a freshman at UTRGV, says she previously opted for online classes whenever she could as a dual-enrollment high-school student. So she turned to the university’s Center for Online Learning and Teaching Technology, which provides workshops and support for faculty teaching online courses.