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College Students With Learning Disabilities Are Asking For More Support. Will They Get It?

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College students with learning disabilities experienced a sudden rupture of the status quo this spring when most of their courses moved online. Lalor is the director of the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training, which studies education strategies and outcomes for students who have learning disabilities.

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Leveraging collaborative e-learning to support UDL

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Online courses can offer content in audio, text, and video formats, each with interactive elements like quizzes, virtual labs, and social annotation to enhance engagement and provide multiple ways for students to absorb the material. It is super important to incorporate the three pillars of UDL into e-learning.

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Getting the most ROI from your classroom technology

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This lets instructors hold competitive quizzes or have multiple students solve puzzles at the same time. In the unlikely case that the touchscreen is taken off-site, geofencing can disable devices that are outside their permitted locations. This puts a wide range of controls literally at your fingertips.

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Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment?

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According to researchers from the foundation, the participants in the study described problems with online trainings that were incompatible with screen-reading software or visual adjustments like changing the font size, with quizzes that didn’t work with a keyboard and with educational images and videos that weren’t verbally described.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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Younger students, and students with disabilities that impact executive function, struggle more in fully asynchronous learning environments, and may require adult supervision to work through asynchronous assignments. In many ways, asynchronous online learning is similar to homework.

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7 ways AI will make a positive impact on classroom teaching

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Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities.

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The case for ChatGPT as the ultimate educator’s toolkit

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AI tools can create content quickly, such as quizzes and worksheets and complete administrative tasks, such as grading assignments and generating progress reports , freeing up more time for instructional activities.

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