eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2021

Upon learning that private schools, like Juan Diego, and smaller rural schools could participate in the Statewide Online Education Program, Colosimo began forging relationships – first with the nearby Canyons School District and more recently with the Juab School District – to formulate more partnerships with ASU Prep Digital. “Our

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A recent Titan Partners survey found that students are eager to participate in on-campus courses with digitally embedded exercises. Students greatly favored hybrid options, and they preferred digital course materials over print textbooks. Other industries have experienced similar histories as new technologies rolled in.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

When learning occurs entirely through computer-mediated instruction, professors often overlook simple steps like asking participants to introduce themselves. Students who are in courses with introductory videos have been shown to actively participate in online discussions very early in the course. Walk In Students’ Shoes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

Digital Participation The web holds potential to revolutionize education, and higher ed has much to add to conversations around how the web is shaping society. Digital participation is one important way we can contribute to these discussions and ideas. However, in higher education, digital participation is not mainstream.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Another finding by the same Columbia team, measuring the Virginia Community College System, uncovered similar results—that students were more likely to fail or withdraw from online courses than from face-to-face classes and were less likely in other ways to do as well as face-to-face learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2018

Thousands of teachers have used the free Wikispaces platform to share materials with students and colleagues, to run online classrooms, or as the virtual arm of a blended course. Wikispaces, one of education’s standout collaborative websites, closed at the end of June 2018.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

We should welcome the unfamiliarity of new and blended course designs and strive to build courses based on the best approach for the content regardless of the format, rather than revert to the comfort of analog lecturing. Hybrid courses with flexible participation: the HyFlex course design. 3: 403-412.

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