eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

College math courses often have high failure rates, largely because many new college students lack the foundational math skills needed to be successful. For many, a trusted tutor is a proven model for learning math and reducing math anxiety, yet the high cost of tutoring and scheduling tutorial sessions are barriers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The moral of that tale, he adds, is there is probably no easy, silver-bullet questionnaire that can be asked at the beginning of any online course to improve completion, as some learning scientists had hoped. Considering Context But that doesn’t mean Reich has given up on behavioral interventions in online learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The group was formed with the money made when Harvard University and MIT sold their edX online platform to for-profit company 2U in 2021 for about $800 million. At the time many online learning leaders criticized the move, since edX had long touted its nonprofit status as differentiating it from competitors like Coursera.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The financial risk of entering higher education was already high, precisely because of the cost of failure. But what if, instead of just redistributing risk, we used the advantages of online learning and other innovations to substantially reduce that risk? These potential students see tremendous risk, and they’re paralyzed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. And that is one of the learning objectives: that we know very little about other places.” One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences. Failure is the point of the exercise,” he says.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

For example, Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) President Paul LeBlanc features heavily into the book’s discussion of a leader willing to rethink higher education admissions and learning experiences beyond the “average” 18-year-old customer that his university had traditionally targeted.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

These days the practice is largely forgotten, but it might bring a sense of déjà vu to proponents of personalized online learning systems. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” And what lessons can today’s professors and administrators learn from the story? What happened?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product. So, I’m an ed-tech enthusiast and a classroom teacher, enthralled by how online learning is reshaping education, but also apt to turn down a tablet when a piece of chalk will do. Language learning gives you power.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

A new report surveying academic administrators released Wednesday by the Online Learning Consortium and Learning House sheds some insight on innovation challenges at higher education institutions. For some schools, changing times means putting a greater emphasis on online learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

But blended learning options are few and far between. Among the districts that EdSurge examined, only 10 districts, or 5 percent, reported that they are considering some in-person component along with online learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. Online courses generally require a great deal of intrinsic motivation to complete.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

“Validation is critical in using relationships to build academic success, especially for diverse students,” Costa also said, adding: “For our new traditional students who are often first generation, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. Many of our students have backgrounds with academic trauma.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Or so I thought.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

There are lots of free online learning opportunities like LearnZillion and Russell Stannard’s Teacher Training Videos. In addition to rewindable online learning, try live webinars and Google Hangouts. A lot of learning happens through failure. If they aren’t clear, ask them to repeat it.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. At 19, John was behind in school and still trying to graduate. Classes were arduous for him, and he often didn’t pass them.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

But by some accounts he faces tough competition at home, competition that was partly blamed for the recent failure of education technology company Instructure to break into corporate learning. Companies are looking at digital learning and saying. This needs to be part of our plan,’” he says.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Synchrony also offers virtual summer activities and online learning for the children of employees, flexibility in hours and the opportunity to work from home. Virtual summer camp was also born out of pandemic, created in response to summer camp and child care center closures, Hu adds.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Through their work, Murphy and his team discovered that online learning solved many of their PD challenges, and allowed them to quickly build capacity for remote learning. We learned about teacher pain points and what PD would look like if they could be the architects of their own learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Failure to do so will not only lead to fractured relationships between colleges and employers, but rather than depending upon higher education to prepare its workforce, industry will design its own curriculum and ignore the traditional higher education structure. As a sector, community colleges are well positioned to lead in this space.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning. She says that many students, especially if theyre the first in their family to attend college, dont know what a writing center is and even if they do, they believe getting help is a sign of failure.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

Universities really haven’t identified that there are some structural changes happening with the profile of students entering the university, and there are some structural changes with how individuals access the learning opportunities that exist in society as a whole. Learn more here.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

The balance between onsite and online learning will continue to fluctuate over the next couple of years, with the quality of special needs education in particular set to be disproportionately affected. Over the past few months, the U.S. school system has gone through a dramatic shift. But the upheaval is far from over.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Clearly, a lot has changed over the last decade.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. However, delivering online education is crucial in this circumstance as it is really challenging to effectively engage students in the learning process.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The speakers included Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, Amy Ahearn, associate director at Acumen+, Kapeesh Saraf, head of growth and consumer products at Coursera, and Kristin Palmer, director of online learning at University of Virginia. Isn't that a failure?” Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2020

The balance between onsite and online learning will continue to fluctuate over the next couple of years, with the quality of special needs education in particular set to be disproportionately affected. Over the past few months, the U.S. school system has gone through a dramatic shift. But the upheaval is far from over.

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Languages Language Failure Fairness 60

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

The balance between onsite and online learning will continue to fluctuate over the next couple of years, with the quality of special needs education in particular set to be disproportionately affected. Over the past few months, the U.S. school system has gone through a dramatic shift. But the upheaval is far from over.

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Languages Language Failure Fairness 60

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2020

The balance between onsite and online learning will continue to fluctuate over the next couple of years, with the quality of special needs education in particular set to be disproportionately affected. Over the past few months, the U.S. school system has gone through a dramatic shift. But the upheaval is far from over.

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Languages Language Failure Fairness 60

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2020

The balance between onsite and online learning will continue to fluctuate over the next couple of years, with the quality of special needs education in particular set to be disproportionately affected. Over the past few months, the U.S. school system has gone through a dramatic shift. But the upheaval is far from over.

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Languages Language Failure Fairness 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Johnson reminded the community: “To support faculty experimentation, you have to allow for failure. You can also RSVP for our next chat: How Will the Future of Work Influence the Future of Learning? DLNchat is co-hosted by the Online Learning Consortium , WCET , Tyton Partners and EDUCAUSE.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Enter online learning, a classic disruptive innovation that could fill in the gaps before it was too late for students. The NCAA, Los Angeles Times , Education Next, and now Slate, among others, have taken notice of the online credit recovery failures. This again focuses on the inputs, not outcomes. That is unrealistic.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. She brings together research done across decades and in various disciplines.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. However, delivering online education is crucial in this circumstance as it is really challenging to effectively engage students in the learning process.

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Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The popularity of online learning tools, web-based rich content such as video, interactive digital textbooks, e-books, online assessment and the increasing dependence on the internet for student and teacher learning is growing rapidly. They had failures. What’s fueling innovation in schools right now?

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