eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

Our world is more hyperconnected and hybrid than ever before, particularly since 2020 when many schools had to transition to online schooling due to the pandemic. Even four years later, some school districts still use online learning.

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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? It is the path to sustained cultural transformation, and it starts with the adult relationships in your building.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

As agencies like UNESCO call for global citizen education, in an aim to create peaceful and sustainable societies , online education is being increasingly used to boost cross-cultural dialogues and promote shared values through empathy and compassion-building. However, education has never been value-neutral.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2020

Equity and access have been huge concerns with remote learning, to the extent that some districts have not permitted online learning to be their primary approach. Many students simply don't have access to a stable internet connection or the proper devices.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Since their glory days only a few years ago, MOOCs have been on the receiving end of much critique, and the false promises of democratizing education through simply connecting to the internet have been severely slashed. such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. The argument for a global language of communication has its pros and cons.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Then COVID-19 catapulted education into crisis mode, forcing her and all students and teachers into at-home learning situations across the world. Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. Access to computers and Wi-Fi at home was woefully inadequate. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

million children – nearly half of Ukraine’s school-aged population – to rely on partial or fully remote learning solutions. Each center is equipped with laptops, high-speed internet, multimedia projectors, educational materials, security systems, and accessibility features such as wheelchair ramps and modified bathrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2020

Along the way, we focused on five areas that we felt were necessary to serve our community of young people: Mitigate the Digital and Connectivity Divide Access to computers and a dependable internet connection is critical to delivering any form of online learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Trick now that sometimes takes the form of a fully online school, but that’s actually fairly rare. What we’re seeing much more commonly is students who are mixing on site and online learning. So there’s these two examples of how CTE taps into online learning. In their schedule.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Welcome to the Hidden Curriculum of the Internet We often imagine learning as something that happens within school walls, books opened, teachers talking, students taking notes. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning. This is informal learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

YouTube may be humanity’s largest collaborative cultural project, aggregating an astonishing amount of user-generated content. More colleges are using it for online learning, since it can make students and instructors more present to each other than most other media. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

“We are using iPads for our fourth to ninth grade students, and we are looking for apps and websites for our students to learn [on the devices with],” says Najera. In China, I think the culture is little different. When Chen started her work back in 2012, she says people were obsessed with online learning models like Coursera.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Online education has revolutionized the way individuals access and engage with learning opportunities, providing flexibility and convenience that traditional institutions cannot always offer.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. The decision to make edX open source epitomizes that ethos.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Teachers are revered , most families spend about a third of their income on their children’s education, and most students spend at least an hour a day on some kind of online learning. An estimated 34 percent of all mobile internet traffic in China flows through WeChat.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

“Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m If I were a betting woman, I would bet a hefty sum that my colleagues’ perceptions of asynchronous online learning are shared by tens of thousands of college instructors worldwide. caretaker, internet concerns).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“At Savvas, we have made it our mission to give educators and families the solutions they need so that their students can get the most out of their learning, no matter where it takes place this year.”. This includes lesson plans, instructional tools, and readiness assessments specifically geared for distance learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

In some cases, this will be an abrupt switch from a culture that required butts-in-seats from 8 a.m. Are you required to provide your own internet access? Humanizing remote work is just as important as humanizing online learning, but more on that later! Do dress code rules apply? Your own phone line?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

“Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m If I were a betting woman, I would bet a hefty sum that my colleagues’ perceptions of asynchronous online learning are shared by tens of thousands of college instructors worldwide. caretaker, internet concerns).

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Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 105

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Era of K12 online education In a traditional classroom, culture is everywhere. But what happens to that rich cultural backdrop when school moves online? The Cultural Ecosystem of Traditional Schools Physical schools have always served dual purposes. Lessons are compressed.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Online education has revolutionized the way individuals access and engage with learning opportunities, providing flexibility and convenience that traditional institutions cannot always offer.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2021

But the transition to online learning may have been more intuitive, given their familiarity with the internet. At this point, merging school recovery and COVID safety is a fundamental cultural challenge. “In And for me, that’s huge.” That process won’t end this fall, and may still take years, Ramirez says. says Ramirez.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

To start, he and his staff examined the research behind traditional high school models, online learning, self-directed programs in which learners work independently, and more customized outreach programs—traveling to see how these programs worked in other schools. We needed to do it differently, but we knew we could do it.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

There was wide agreement that upcoming changes to net neutrality open the doors to potential discrimination of internet access. Protections for charging more for internet use in rural areas have been removed (and the FCC is currently attempting to recategorize internet access from a utility to a service which could compound the issue).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

You might expect an internet visionary who’s also a professor and an administrator overseeing tech-based education to plump for the latest edtech. Online is changing the story people are willing to tell themselves about college,” he said. The university chose 2U as its tech partner to help create and run the online program.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

The materials are available for free on the Internet and as part of BrainPop subscriptions. Intended for students ages 6-11 and developed by teachers, it provides a free online learning tool designed to help students broaden their worldview through meaningful interactions with peers across the globe.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. We typically talk about the “last-mile” – the connection between the larger Internet network and neighborhoods and communities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Where it used to be sufficient to teach students how to thrive in their home country, that falls woefully short in a world where the internet reaches everyone, anywhere, where geopolitical borders have little effect on international activities, where the customs and culture of a country have a significant impact on student learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

This trend is likely to continue; experts at IBM have hypothesized that knowledge could double every 12 hours as the internet of things grows. Not only does this mean knowledge itself is expanding exponentially, but that the knowledge and skills we learned in the past and count on in our lives are becoming obsolete at an increasing rate.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Internet navigation: Technology literacy involves the ability to navigate the internet effectively. This includes using web browsers, conducting online searches, and understanding how to evaluate and cite digital information. Create a school culture that values ethical digital conduct and respectful online communication.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. Programs use data to help identify learning behaviors and styles which provide better results.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning. Nancy Bellucci is the academic program director for the School of Nursing at Columbia Southern University.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning. Nancy Bellucci is the academic program director for the School of Nursing at Columbia Southern University.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The central tenets of social justice are centered around providing fair and equitable treatment of others as well as access to services, remaining mindful of the diversity of thought, culture, and perspectives one brings to a learning environment, and remaining inclusive in our actions and in creating a welcoming learning environment for all.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Before the invasion of the internet, the university comprised a secure, single identity; now—with about a third of college students online —the American college is bifurcated. Like fraternal twins, online and in-person campuses are the same, but different.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Plans are in place to provide faculty with appropriate professional learning opportunities and, perhaps most important, heads of school have nurtured a school culture of risk-taking and innovation in which faculty feel safe to experiment, fail, and try again. They prohibit the use of Twitter and YouTube, and they block blogs.

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