eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning. However, not all teachers have received the adequate resources and training needed to teach remotely. One of the major issues teachers are struggling with is effectively engaging students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As we embark on a new year against the backdrop of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we continue to live in an extraordinary age of mass school closures and distance learning. Despite this growth, however, the pandemic has not been smooth sailing for schools and online education providers. Edtech explosion.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

Like so many districts across the country, the Greenville Public School District (GPSD) in Mississippi faced the challenge this spring of quickly pivoting to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was an urgency in determining what existing tools could be used to seamlessly transition to our new normal of online learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

After listening to educators, parents and caregivers from across the country, Savvas Learning Company today introduced a range of platform enhancements and new K-12 educational products aimed at making distance learning more impactful. Savvas Realize Optimized for Distance Learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2020

Will schools convene in person again, will they have to move back to online learning in case of new viral outbreaks, or will learning remain online for now? Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning: Scenarios and Considerations for PreK–12 Education Leaders , a report from New America, asks just those questions.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While the full impact has yet to be determined, the fear is that the COVID learning loss experienced during the pandemic could widen achievement gaps for those students furthest from opportunity. Related content: Study shows major learning loss for grades K-2. Some schools provided packets for distance learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the classroom, routines support student learning and build efficiency. The same is true with online and distance learning. Here are several ways to create more clarity and consistency in online classrooms, and help students feel at ease and valued in an online learning environment.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders meant that students and teachers alike were forced to shift to online or hybrid learning overnight. Now, more than a year later, educators, students, and parents have been able to reflect on their experiences with online learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2021

In the classroom, routines support student learning and build efficiency. The same is true with online and distance learning. Here are eight ways to create more clarity and consistency in online classrooms, and help students feel at ease and valued in an online learning environment.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 14, 2020

Then I asked the students to think about how clear each tenet at the schools where they were doing their student teaching. I even used it this morning when presenting a webinar on online learning for a large group of educators in Africa. It changed the whole dynamic of the webinar. quiz features).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Online places a burden on faculty they had not foreseen when they signed up for academic life.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2020

Combining independent online learning with face-to-face instruction. Scott Nolt, a high school history teacher in North Carolina, has been using blended learning for years as a way to teach his students without daily direct instruction. Here are some examples of what these types of models look like.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University—but some of the students she’s teaching are now taking the class from California, where it’s only 8 a.m. At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome. “The for all of her students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The shift to virtual learning in early 2020 put a spotlight on online course design, with all its flaws and inconsistencies. But there are good examples of effective online course design. First and foremost, engaging online learning programs are built with empathy for both the teacher and the student.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders meant that students and teachers alike were forced to shift to online or hybrid learning overnight. Now, more than a year later, educators, students, and parents have been able to reflect on their experiences with online learning. .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Education institutions have remained admirably fluid over the past year and a half through the rollercoaster of remote and hybrid learning and teaching environments–scaling systems, devices, and processes for a learn-from-anywhere structure. These changes are working well for many.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

All four scenarios laid out in the New America guide are predicated on the idea that distance learning will, in some way, be folded into every school’s plans for the coming year. Also underpinning these various scenarios is the critical need for professional learning and development over the summer.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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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? And will we return to our classrooms to teach in the same manner as we did before COVID? education system.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space. Claire Cummings teaching English online to students in China for VIPKid. And many educators have experimented with this kind of teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging. 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. To fulfill their personal goals of getting students excited about learning? Online or via Google Voice.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2020

Andrew’s Episcopal in Maryland, where we both work, in the science of teaching and learning—which helped our staff realize the schedule we were using did not align well with the most promising research on how students learn best. This blended approach was the basis of the schedule in the Distance Learning Plan we developed.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Combining independent online learning with face-to-face instruction. Scott Nolt, a high school history teacher in North Carolina, has been using blended learning for years as a way to teach his students without daily direct instruction. Here are some examples of what these types of models look like.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

Infobase is now positioned to connect educators with the solutions they need to fill learning gaps, provide social-emotional learning support, and successfully utilize distance learning technology through the COVID-19 pandemic and into the future.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

What drives your passion for teaching? My passion for teaching is driven by my students and families. I teach at a Title 1 elementary school, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Related content: A teacher learns that online learning requires flexibility and patience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

Many K-12 schools this week have cancelled in-person classes and announced a shift to online teaching. But at least one online-learning expert thinks that's a bad decision, especially for vulnerable students. A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to impact our communities, schools are implementing emergency distance learning plans to prepare for potential closures. LanSchool is offering complimentary LanSchool Air licenses as an online learning solution through July 1, 2020.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

When the Sloan Foundation had the bright idea to stimulate digital education at the nation’s colleges and universities a quarter of a century ago, it christened online learning as “asynchronous learning networks,” an eccentric name for what is now known simply as online learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This book spells out how pandemic school shutdowns resulted in massive learning losses. For years, educational technologists have cast personalized online learning as an answer to what plagues education. It’s human connections that make teaching an endlessly rewarding calling.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Then she sits on standby for regular office hours before teaching a full two hours synchronously—that is, streaming live to her students—over several sessions on Zoom. In traditional classrooms, time is constant while learning is variable. Next, she plans small-group reading and math sessions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Built originally for classroom management, many LMS platforms haven’t evolved for today’s highly fluid teaching environment. Students’ kitchens became their classrooms, parents became co-teachers and tech support, and the internet became a lifeline to learning. Educators need to ask: Can my LMS go the distance?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The great education beta test brought on by the pandemic has resulted in discoveries and innovations across education — from distance learning and closing the digital divide, to addressing the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion in schools, and so much more,” said Kevin Hogan, eSN’s editor-at-large.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Having to shift between different learning modalities is stressful for leaders and teachers. What can help make this process easier: creating a unifying vision for learning and helping teachers define what it looks like concretely, whether teaching from a distance or in the school building.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

For many, it seems the sudden changes in recent months—prolonged school closures, emergency distance learning and the politicization of school reopenings—have only pushed them closer to a breaking point. For 17 percent, that could mean a complete career change—away from teaching.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

To advocate for and on behalf of effective online teaching and learning practices, four organizations are joining forces to establish the National Council for Online Education. Department of Education about distance learning regulations. And for-profit education in the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

The second pertains to their stress around managing their own and their families’ needs while simultaneously working full-time from home and adapting to new technologies for teaching. In one study, 85 percent of teachers reported that work-life imbalance was affecting their ability to teach. Emotions matter for health and well-being.

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