Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

“It’s one of the easiest things to do to really understand what that environment looks like, feels like and behaves like,” says Kerry Rice, a professor at Boise State University who has studied effective online learning. There's not a lot of research on very young children and online learning,” Rice says. “So,

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

Is the prevailing takeaway from this brutal, oppressive year a shared aversion toward online learning? The need to manage a single digitized space for teaching and learning often evolved into a shell game as they tried to bet on which moving part would contribute to an optimal learning experience, with limited support.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. million students. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

And that has led to new teaching practices, mainly flipped classrooms where professors require students to watch video lectures for homework and use class time for more active discussions or hands-on activities. Video also has greater “bandwidth” for communication, than text discussion forums, adding images to audio.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

With the swift shift to remote learning, educators and education entrepreneurs alike are quickly learning that trying to replicate what happens in classrooms on an online conference call comes with a lot of ups and downs. Heck, I don’t even like doing that. I’ve been using Chroma Key to change my background [in lessons].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Now is the time to fully embrace how physical classrooms can be improved by online techniques. Making Learning Active Students, in particular, seem sold on the upsides of techniques they encountered during online learning. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Lightboard technology provides an avenue to bridge the gap between the traditional classroom and online space. References Bradbury, N.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Lightboard technology provides an avenue to bridge the gap between the traditional classroom and online space. References Bradbury, N.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Experts in online teaching have been debating and researching the question of synchronous versus asynchronous for decades. Synchronous Works Better For Some Students Than For Others Holding an online class via a live video platform like Zoom or Google Meet can closely resemble an in-person classroom dynamic.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A significant challenge of 2020, specifically in terms of remote learning, has been ensuring students have the devices needed to learn as well as reliable Wi-Fi to access online classes and assignments.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

One unusual aspect of the NEI model is to encourage professors to adopt online course materials developed at other universities. Soon after, a professor from the University of Colorado at Boulder started assigning some of those materials for a “Shakespeare in Film” class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis. You do need a device that is fairly new—not more than five years old. I do not have money for a new or used one, and it is extremely slow.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

(Credit: Mike Zetlow) I know from my year teaching at VIPKid that students can learn online , a conclusion researchers have also reached. This online learning model doesn’t work for every child, but it is right for some. Invest in blended and online learning professional development.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. These assignments werent just practice. The struggle was the entire point.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

The company also uses a customizable assignments generator that it acquired, for an undisclosed amount, from a Bulgarian startup in 2019. We’ve noticed that the earlier we introduce these assignments into a course, the retention rates improve,” Maggioncalda says. Stueve’s been an online learner throughout. It creates a cadence.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture. But there are powerful and exciting alternative.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

It’s a complicated question, even in the best of times—one that has been at the forefront of our daily online teaching practice and our research into the online behaviors and interactions that can have the greatest impact on successful learner outcomes. There isn’t one solution for increasing learner engagement and motivation.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas. High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. How will your instruction differ when students are not in your direct line of sight in a lecture hall or classroom?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Online Learning and Non-traditional Students. In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Video is also proving to have solid results when it comes to learning outcomes—from higher test scores to increased engagement with learning materials to increased comprehension.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

But because she is legally blind, she had an added challenge of not being able to see the diagrams and notes projected in the lecture hall or assigned for homework. Like many of her peers, Ann Wai-Yee Kwong struggled in statistics while working towards a bachelor's degree in psychology at UC Berkeley. Chief among those barriers?

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal. For example, some students mistakenly assume that recorded lectures are “optional resources” rather than asynchronous assignments, Roeger says.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Research has shown that meaningful collaboration and communication are unlikely to occur in an online learning environment without teacher direction (Borup et al. Active & Purposeful Communication There are a variety of ways to communicate with your students within and outside of your school’s Learning Management System (LMS) (i.e.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. While there are many additional features to explore for accessibility (e.g.,

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

While Zoom was the “it” word during the pivot to online learning throughout COVID-19, it is high time to consider alternatives to synchronous online classes that benefit student learning. Students can interact with one another through asynchronous video assignments. Asynchronous videos get an A. Ansorge, C.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 20, 2020

We had our chance this summer to get better at online learning. Whether we’re face-to-face, blended, hybrid, hyflex, or fully online, we need to be thinking deeply about what our students need from us this fall. Listening to teacher lectures and doing rote, low-level desk work isn’t going to help her stay engaged.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Educational media is at an inflection point.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Research has shown that meaningful collaboration and communication are unlikely to occur in an online learning environment without teacher direction (Borup et al. Active & Purposeful Communication There are a variety of ways to communicate with your students within and outside of your school’s Learning Management System (LMS) (i.e.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Thats why success in online learning doesnt just rely on intelligence or curriculum. In this blog, well explore 17 study tips for online learning. This is perhaps one of the most important study tips for online learning. Schedule fixed blocks for classes, assignments, revision, and breaks.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

To offset students’ feelings of being “the only one” and to help develop feelings of connection, instructors in online courses may make use of strategies such as personal online introductions by faculty and students, discussion assignments, group projects, occasional video lectures, and Zoom office hours.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Whether its a 60-second TikTok on the French Revolution, a deep-dive YouTube documentary on climate change, or a TED Talk about emotional intelligence, young minds are tuning in and learning, often more effectively than traditional methods ever allowed. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning.

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