eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

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. The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 176

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. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

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Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

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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