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APRIL 28, 2025

Understanding these dynamics could reshape your perspective on what effective education looks like today. The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Thirty-two percent of participants cited personal or family issues, 24 percent named financial reasons, and 11 percent said they stopped out for work or to pursue a career. The groups surveyed more than 3,000 people between the age of 20 and 34 who left college without a degree. Why did these students leave?

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JANUARY 17, 2023

The report entitled “ The Youths Relationships Study ” was conducted by researchers at University of Illinois Chicago and published last fall. Researchers reported that Big Brothers Big Sisters mentees in the study were 54 percent less likely to have been arrested and 41 percent less likely to have engaged in substance use.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Technologies such as augmented reality (AR) have already proven themselves catalysts for learning, rather than the distractions that many organizations and schools tend to perceive them as. Gen-Z school students recognize the positive impact of advanced technologies in their educational experience.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Eighty-seven percent of educators believe this could be the top area for additional support to address learning losses. Other top causes for learning gaps include mental health and social-emotional struggles (38 percent) and lack of students completing their homework or studying (35 percent).

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Louisa Moats and leaders in the field of evidence-based literacy, these sessions provide classroom application examples of the learning and refine and extend participants understanding of the content. Dr. Akbar also praised the rubrics and assessments in the courses of study. It tells teachers what were looking for.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Making Time for Research The promise of media and technology to transform student learning has led schools in the U.S.

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MAY 16, 2024

Intelligent AI tutoring programs accomplish this feat by using machine learning algorithms to detect patterns in how students interact with the software during study sessions. While AI tutoring offers a new way for students to approach learning, educators, parents, and students must use it cautiously.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

If a student had an interest in learning about something, and we didn’t have a teacher qualified to teach that or who had experience teaching it, we were allowing students to self-design programs of study around an area of interest through a MOOC or Coursera. I’ve been able to help people create that vision for educational technology.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

After all, it’s based on an experiment that used a “precise” scale, studied a decent number of subjects and measured change over time. That’s the hypothesis that Motz and other psychology researchers from Indiana University tested in a study whose findings they believe point to a promising method for strengthening critical-thinking muscles.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. Most notably, it became clear that for Black women educators in this study, being a teacher is more of an identity than a job title.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

At that time, 109 participants completed the LETRS for Early Childhood Educators course, and 97.2% Approximately 200 elementary educators participated in the LETRS Third Edition course during this pilot. Even before the act was signed into law, Alabama was piloting the program with a small cohort during 2018.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As educational technology companies look to place learning science at the core of their products, there are three key steps to success: aligning their teams around education outcomes, building a feedback loop, and evaluating and validating your results.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. Some want to gain better job prospects, others seek to socialize in new circles, while still others just want an educational way to entertain themselves. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. government.

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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. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

"Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. And that helps students turn from passive to engaged participants in their own intellectual excursions.

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APRIL 8, 2021

The “outside-in” model of knowledge creation in teaching, where teachers are passive participants in studies and researchers exist outside of the everyday classroom, is no longer our best path forward. But the onus does not rest solely on educators. Not simply as passive participants, but as valued contributors.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Mike has been a tireless volunteer and an invaluable leader in Ohios educational technology community. One of his most impactful contributions has been the creation and leadership of a highly successful CETL study group. Thanks to Mikes dedication, Ohio now has around 20 new CETLs each year more than any other state.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Ten higher education institutions across the U.S. The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs. That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

But researchers who study the relationship say that the field is still in its infancy, and new methodologies and funding sources are needed to understand it and push us toward a healthier environment for kids online. “The One meta-analysis of 12 different studies found depression correlated with time spent on social media, although weakly.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A new study of an unusually rich dataset in Maryland found that such efforts can have a significant impact when it comes to getting more students to go on to careers in coding, and in bringing more diversity to the field. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

First Book is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides educators and program leaders serving low-income communities with access to free and low-cost high-quality books and resources to help create educational equity. This Network is the key to creating systemic change. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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MAY 7, 2020

One such company, Practera, recently made its service available for free to colleges that want to participate (until August of 2021), through a pilot program funded by a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. In some cases, the colleges offer credit for the virtual internships or make them part of a course.

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JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? Peterson wondered at the concern over the test expressed in media coverage.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Participating in a simulation of the Constitutional Convention offered them a structured experience to practice the skills necessary for civic discourse—listening, discussing and compromising. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Alongside colleagues from universities across the country, our team systematically analyzed over 400 studies from the last 13 years, representing the experiences of over half a million K-12 students from more than 50 countries. Among more than 400 studies, none reported data on student sexual orientation.

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MARCH 15, 2021

Undergraduate education offers a key opportunity for recruiting students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic, gender, and disability groups into computing. This study sought to uncover how students are changing in college, including how their academic majors might have an effect on their beliefs and attitudes.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This invitation to participate in the plot of the story is a hallmark of educational programs for young children, a moment designed to check their comprehension and engage them in learning. AI is coming to early childhood education. Can artificial intelligence help children participate with, and not just consume, media?

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

But are those who study at all-online programs making the same connections—or are they finding other ways to connect to the job market after earning their diploma? One way is for remote learners to join digital networks, especially those that engage them in online class discussions with offline participants.

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JULY 23, 2021

Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. This study gives a powerful argument for why we need to reframe the definition of ‘access.’” Education technology is going to make up a bigger proportion of what we’re doing in school moving forward,” she says.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Dr. Evans observed how the physical posture of a 7th-grade study participant changed when she read a small print and a large print book. Large print books decreased stress about reading for most readers who participated in the study. 74 percent of teachers noticed increased participation in classroom read-alouds.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Study and Share: As more Americans are told to stay home, the FCC should study how broadband networks are faring under the stress of more intensive use and publish these findings daily. No one should be prevented from having their opportunity to participate in an FCC proceeding as a result of this public health emergency.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

However, building community with Black women educators as a participant in the EdSurge Research and Abolitionist Teaching Network healing circle, showed me how the intersections also collide for other Black women educators. It can feel lonely and isolating balancing this fractured personhood.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

If a community hasn’t cultivated a space where individuals feel seen, heard, and valued, it will cultivate dissatisfaction among educators and we will continue to lose teachers. Professor of public health and African American Studies David R. Specifically, I noticed a recurring theme of trauma among my peers.

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