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AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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JUNE 8, 2022

And so the online and hybrid courses these institutions spun up during the pandemic came with little of the scaffolding that experts recommend. This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It

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JULY 17, 2018

In contrast—and as was found in many studies—students were equally likely to complete a hybrid course, one that delivers both face-to-face and digital components—as to complete a face-to-face course. The report also showed that in other outcomes, too, online students were not as strong as their residential peers.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Judith Ruiz, a freshman at UTRGV, says she previously opted for online classes whenever she could as a dual-enrollment high-school student. So she turned to the university’s Center for Online Learning and Teaching Technology, which provides workshops and support for faculty teaching online courses.

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