eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2016

Students, teachers executed a virtual learning day to develop online learning and working skills. As college and career skills are touted as essential for students’ success after high school, students in one New Jersey school got a lesson in one fast-growing workplace trend: learning and working from home.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

Come summer, assuming enrollment numbers stay consistent, the department will implement distance biology classes for 350 students using Hands-On Labs equipment. The sudden jump to online learning has upturned education disciplines around the globe. Labster expects to lose money getting so many schools online.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2020

Their site includes curriculum, project-based learning ideas, independent activities, parent tools, sample schedules, live classes and events—in effect, a full ecosystem for remote learning. New Models Most school districts are currently mapping out plans for the fall. But early college has now been taken to a whole new level.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Moore: We are a small suburban school district (approximately 2400 students in two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school) located in Enola, PA that started the school year completely online. Prior to OTIS, how was your district handling PD?

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

K-12 Creative Cloud customers can also take advantage of these cost-savings by purchasing a volume license for their school or district, giving access (including at-home) to all students and teachers at no additional charge. high school students about their sentiments and plans for the future.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2020

But they are not learning as well as they could be. According to a report by the American Institutes for Research, just 66 percent of students with disabilities graduate high school, compared to 84 percent overall. Other examples of successful online interventions come from the special education community itself.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

We educators understand online learning, probably have taken classes this way, but we haven’t yet wrapped our brains around how to make it work in OUR classes. In fact, the biggest question I get from teachers in my online classes and on my blog is: “How do I do it?” Pedagogies for distance learning.

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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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. But for thousands of so-called international schools in Asia, many of which follow American curriculum and employ American teachers, it’s already daily life. Some schools were better prepared.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

Donna Vinton, PhD, has worked for positions in a public high school, two K-12 state education agencies, a private college, and a public state university. ” Social presence in online learning: Multiple perspectives on practice and research (2017): 99-112. Interactive Learning Environments 30, no. Swan, Karen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. The webcam recording is submitted with the final exam.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 27, 2025

Introduction: Why Its Time to Rethink What We Know About Online Learning for K12 Students Online schooling today is not what it was a decade ago. Despite its growing popularity, misconceptions and outdated beliefs continue to cloud public perception with respect to K12 online education.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

On March 16, the district closed schools to help contain the outbreak of COVID-19. Distance learning began March 23. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. It’s crucial to academic achievement.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Around the world, the media is touting an online learning “revolution” as hundreds of millions of students from kindergarten through grad school now learn virtually, including over 70 million in the U.S. As Yaffa Segal of New Rochelle High School told The New York Times : “The conversation was explosive.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

From the moment schools shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that many districts were ill-equipped to support their students from afar. They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Jamie Wong Baesa , a middle school math teacher who hasn’t seen her students’ faces since March. Geri Zamora , a high school history teacher who nearly lost a student to COVID-19. Frazier , a fourth grade teacher who says remote learning reaffirmed the career path she chose. Right: Zamora's desk setup for remote teaching.

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