k12

JULY 24, 2025

Your child’s education lays the groundwork for success in their college experience, career, and personal life. So, it’s no wonder that parents are rethinking how their kids receive a K-12 education. This blog highlights the difference between homeschool and online school to help you determine which might be best for your young learner.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Public school districts can move to online learning in incremental steps — just one day a week. These days it seems most school-wide blended learning programs are taking place not in traditional public education, but in charter schools—for one big reason: Charter schools are able to essentially start from scratch.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

Extron is committed to helping educational institutions of all sizes respond to the recent dramatic shift toward online learning. As part of this commitment, Extron is offering education customers special pricing and grants for its online learning solutions, including the SMP Series.

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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. What’s the Use of Lectures? Many things did not translate well online.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. There's not a lot of research on very young children and online learning,” Rice says. “So,

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

After a challenging and unique year of emergency remote learning, I recently spoke with a group of faculty members new to online teaching to learn more about their experiences. While no two educators ever face identical challenges, I heard the same refrains over and over. Remote learning is here to stay.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Change in higher education historically has been a dynamic process involving two sectors—one consisting of mainstream institutions and the other a grab bag of diverse, nontraditional organizations, service providers and emerging models. Similarly, in their earliest days, online courses were basically lectures and readings made digital.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 14, 2020

Last night I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for students in the credential program at UC Riverside. As I was planning my presentation, I knew I wanted to engage the group attending my lecture. I even used it this morning when presenting a webinar on online learning for a large group of educators in Africa.

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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 learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." Sink or swim. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

As the pandemic wanes, a chorus of commentators are offering predictions about what mark it will leave on higher education—with some forecasting colleges collapsing and others seeing increasing alliances with commercial partners. Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. three or four days.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

However, a one-size-fits-all approach to design does not provide equitable learning experiences. In an educational context, equity understands that different learners will need different inputs to reach a particular output. Some students will need more time, resources, and support to reach a particular learning objective successfully.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The education industry has witnessed a rapid evolution in recent years , marked by new ideas and emerging technologies. In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces. Here are five of the biggest education trends in 2024: 1.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? So we also asked deLaplante what he thinks about the broader landscape of online education that he’s part of. It looked like there was going to be a big realignment. It's quite risky.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

On the 9th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on major K-12 education trends. The education industry has witnessed a rapid evolution in recent years , marked by new ideas and emerging technologies. In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2015

A new, intuitive platform lets educators design their online courses—easily. As an educator, it’s hard to please today’s tech-savvy students with PowerPoints and lecture-on-video—but those are exactly the kinds of tools available for educators who don’t have time to learn online learning design 101.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This type of structure is not revolutionary.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2020

As educators start considering their options for the fall, the future is full of uncertainty. If schools remain closed, they’ll need to prepare for more remote learning. Combining independent online learning with face-to-face instruction. Here are some examples of what these types of models look like.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

With the swift shift to remote learning, educators and education entrepreneurs alike are quickly learning that trying to replicate what happens in classrooms on an online conference call comes with a lot of ups and downs. Heck, I don’t even like doing that. My daughter was dressed as Elsa [from Frozen].

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

We are just getting started with voice technology in education. From simple commands that retrieve stored information to a future where voice-activated AI coaches help us set and reach educational goals across a lifetime, the potential for growth is undeniable. We are just getting started with voice technology in education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

EdSurge: What problems in education is ViewSonic hoping to address with the launch of UNIVERSE ? Kevin Chu Chu: Online learning has been growing over the past decade. Remote learners miss out on many key elements of in-person learning when using the tools currently available. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. Let’s start with the basics.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2018

Consequently, students are not interested in sitting through lectures only to be required to regurgitate information back to the teacher on a test. Technological tools are integrated into the lives of today’s students and they want those same tools integrated into their educational experiences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. But now that so many educators and students have had direct experience with online formats, it’s a narrative that seems to be sinking in. It’s a message I’ve been arguing for a while.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Those children and their needs should always be the priorities of the schools that serve them—not some online version of education. It can be even more nefarious when you’re teaching online because the online world is built to hold and move information. You can record lectures. And more lectures.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., Students have 24/7 access to video instruction when teachers record lectures and mini-lessons, making them available online.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

As university professors and researchers who work closely with K-12 online teachers and learners, we’ve heard from many newly remote educators who are struggling. Thankfully, research into online learning can provide us with a starting point to make sure our students continue to be engaged in the process of learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While traditional lecture-based sessions still exist, an increasingly common approach is to offer a dynamic range of opportunities–from hands-on workshops and interactive learning experiences to flexible, self-paced online learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. While I was familiar with the benefits of blended learning (e.g., Broadly speaking, it is “the strategic combination of online and in-person instruction” (Graham et al., 2019; Vallée et al.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. We can’t wait for the next pandemic.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This story on how blended learning can help schools reopen during the COVID pandemic, originally published on June 15, was eSN’s No. As educators start considering their options for the fall, the future is full of uncertainty. If schools remain closed, they’ll need to prepare for more remote learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

What puzzled me even more was the stark difference between K-12 education and higher education in this regard. Unfortunately, this kind of productive struggle is largely absent from K-12 education, leaving students ill-prepared with the mental resilience required to learn and adapt in college and beyond.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. For years, it’s been a struggle for many college faculty to adapt to online instruction.

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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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) shares a key trait with most the nation’s schools: Everything is happening online. The event’s broader agenda ranges from interactive lectures to sessions where thousands of attendees come together to hear speakers such as Kendi.

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