eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

This application is recommended for high school and college students. With 200-plus interactive activities, the high-quality Pivot Interactives videos give students the opportunity to observe and study hard-to-replicate experiments and phenomena. Pivot Interactives is recommended for high school and college students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2022

Boston – March 23, 2022 – High school students now have the option of online credit recovery through VHS Learning’s newly-created Spanish 1 course. The course helps motivated learners to recover the credit they need to graduate or progress to the next grade level.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

Through this partnership, IMG Academy boarding school and NCSA student athletes will receive free access to a variety of programs based on their membership tiers. “With IMG Academy and NCSA, we’re making sure student-athletes don’t have to choose between success in sports and success in school.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Twenty years ago, I was a freshman in high school. Eight years later, I was back in high school again, this time as a math teacher. I modeled my classroom after the classrooms in the high school I attended—rows of desks, the teacher at the front of the room, nightly homework, and regular assessments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

They set up two prediction systems to guess whether students would complete a course: one based only on “administrative data” held by the colleges, such as high school GPA and college transcripts of students; and the other based on so-called “clickstream” data generated by students as they went through course activities on the LMS.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Fellows explicitly called out the need for college leaders to do more to support and provide access to high-quality education to groups such as low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities and mental health issues, refugees, first-generation college students and women and non-binary students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Learn more about the Six Red Marbles' Learning Experience Design team , and how they moved Boston College's courses online. The difference between good and great course designers is the ability to serve as the eyes of the students,” says Evenchik. Jack Shira’s go-to sites for keeping up with digital education trends.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

My strategic asynchronous course design includes purposeful questions that allow each individual teacher to check in about their personal goals and unique challenges, which allows me to get to know them at a deeper level than before. As a result of this pivot, I find myself working one-on-one with teachers more regularly.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Teachers in our virtual high school and blended learning programs, which I help direct, have been having them for a few years now via webinars and seminars. Last summer teachers at our public virtual high school, Achieve Virtual Education Academy, met to reflect on their experiences so far.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

While it is focused on high school, the majority of the concepts would be transferrable to higher education. She recently co-authored a practical book on course design for changing times: Learning that matters: A field guide to course design for transformative education. That’s my vision.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

At Aiken County Career and Technology Center in South Carolina, students in a computer-aided drafting and design course designed and printed a wheelchair for a dog. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out these 4 steps to create a strong 3D printing curriculum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. Source: Course Hero. In high school, I played sports, but another important part of my life was band and musical theatre. I think the students are entertained.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

In some cases, the framework’s quadrants are central to course design, impacting curriculum, instruction and the student experience. Eighth graders who are taking a capstone course on U.S. The LAB high school will open in fall 2017. Foreign Policy have to complete a research project and presentation. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

And during the keynote he challenged educators by asking: “How do we create more academic peak moments in school?” He gave an example of two teachers from Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif. Palmer works to help faculty design deeply memorable moments in class through an activity called “the dream exercise.”

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

While it is focused on high school, the majority of the concepts would be transferrable to higher education. She recently co-authored a practical book on course design for changing times: Learning that matters: A field guide to course design for transformative education. That’s my vision.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We need to design student-centered learning experiences and that takes time, practice and support. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. The Syllabus Gets a Facelift.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children regularly miss elementary, middle and high school. She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. If so, what’s driving the trend?

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

There will be plenty of twists ahead in how we learn after high school; I’m excited that we’ll keep following this thread. University of Michigan (where I went to grad school) provided me such an experience, so it was great to read how my alma mater has grown a culture of academic innovation. Picking favorites—oh, how can you?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Research suggests that high school and university students who employ interdisciplinary approaches tend to achieve as well or better academically (Campbell & Henning, 2010). Interdisciplinary education has positively impacted students’ academic and career outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning define global competence in a way that can guide the development of pedagogical tasks that build students’ global capacities, detailing it as “the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance.”

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Research suggests that high school and university students who employ interdisciplinary approaches tend to achieve as well or better academically (Campbell & Henning, 2010). Interdisciplinary education has positively impacted students’ academic and career outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning define global competence in a way that can guide the development of pedagogical tasks that build students’ global capacities, detailing it as “the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By Rebecca Koenig In Pursuit of Personalized Learning Baraniuk played electric guitar in high school rock bands while growing up in Winnipeg, Canada—the same city, he notes, that spawned The Guess Who. “Our goal,” says Baraniuk, “is positive world domination.” Editors, developers and scientists at work in the OpenStax office. /

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2021

Nepali high school students in MOOCs. Cross-school collaboration: The Global Online Academy. HyFlex course design: Conditions, controversy & craftsmanship. MOOCs and open education in Southeast Asia. Student voices. It’s a world of learning at the World Bank. Hosts reflect on past four episodes.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Following a career teaching junior high and high school science, she now instructs science methods and general teacher education courses in a variety of instructional formats. Melissa Locher, EdD, is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Missouri Southern State University.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

Inclusivity should also extend to course materials, incorporating scholars who may have previously been marginalized. Course design should reflect the diversity of the student body. Instructors often walk a fine line between not enough and too much interaction in course discussions. Ask questions. Jearey-Graham, M.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Following a career teaching junior high and high school science, she now instructs science methods and general teacher education courses in a variety of instructional formats. Melissa Locher, EdD, is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Missouri Southern State University.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

Inclusivity should also extend to course materials, incorporating scholars who may have previously been marginalized. Course design should reflect the diversity of the student body. Instructors often walk a fine line between not enough and too much interaction in course discussions. Ask questions. Jearey-Graham, M.

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