Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Nonetheless, the core principles of the model are immensely relevant for both part-time and full-time distance learning during the pandemic. It essentially asks: What activities are best for independent learning versus learning together? As an added benefit, students can speed up, slow down, and replay videos as needed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. Benefits to student engagement and learning Bragg shares his classroom with dozens of other teachers: his own students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

That system hampered the flexibility needed to provide remediation for English-language learners and special education students. Or, conversely, students struggling with writing might show improvements after longer English composition classes. What if we gave English learners the most experienced teachers and the smallest class sizes?

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Across the region, schools have moved classrooms to the cloud in what’s become a massive experiment in distance learning, impacting local and international schools alike. Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. In classes like English and History, things are going well. “I

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teaching kids to read with good accuracy in English takes several years. As higher education moves into a post-pandemic world, the sector will invest in new student success systems that will help students progress through their various stages by leveraging real-time information and feedback. –Joy Smithson, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

QuillBot saw a small dip in traffic when schools shut down and readied educators for distance learning, but traffic has since returned to normal. He says the tool works with natural language processing, a form of machine learning to analyze, manipulate and generate human language.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

So the college is asking its future teachers to make online activity guides and videos for Home Works , a new distance learning program designed to help kids connect the curricula they usually learn in person at school or camp with what’s going on in their real lives—which right now mostly means being stuck at home. “The

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

The Community of Inquiry model of online teaching and learning ( [link] ) distinguishes three areas of presence in online courses—social, cognitive, and teaching. Instead of a general comment like, “More detail needed,” phrase feedback as a question—e.g., Make use of personal reactions as well as assignment feedback—e.g.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Teaching kids to read with good accuracy in English takes several years. As higher education moves into a post-pandemic world, the sector will invest in new student success systems that will help students progress through their various stages by leveraging real-time information and feedback. –Joy Smithson, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My family is fortunate to be able to accommodate and support the new paradigm of distance learning. Our students may have suffered loss and economic hardships during the past six months of summer break and emergency distance learning,” one charter school administrator told us. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

Originally, the company’s distance-learning technology was designed to transmit live broadcasts from a studio in the U.S., When a student has a question—whether distributed across five classrooms or remote classrooms organized in their homes—we want that feedback to be immediate to a professor,” Hoehn-Saric says. and 11 a.m.

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