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The Effectiveness of Online Learning Depends on Design

Catlin Tucker

However, if humans learn by participating in their lives then how can online learning be effective? Participation. Participation. The goal of online learning must be to increase participation to ensure that students are regularly exchanging ideas and learning from one another. Community of Practice. References.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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The instructor can decide if you want to let anyone who has the link be able to collaborate, protect your ideas with a password, or require people to set up accounts before they can engage. This is just one example of a tool that makes it easy for student-to-student interaction without requiring much effort from instructors to set it up.

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New Teacher-Focused Program Launched to Drive Literacy Results for Alaska Students

eSchool News

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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Advancing educational equity with UDL and generative AI

eSchool News

While we recognize that some of these elements require large systems change, we also want to challenge all computer science educators to be the example.Taking computer science, with its long history of exclusion, towards an inclusive future will cause ripple effects across all content areas.

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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom.

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LaunchCode Pilot Program Trains St. Louis Teachers in Job-Focused Coding Curriculum

eSchool News

Louis area high schools – Vashon, Gateway STEM, Confluence Academy, KIPP, Affton and Rosati-Kain – are participating in the pilot. Over the summer, the teachers participated in training conducted by LaunchCode’s staff in the curriculum, which includes tech skills that mirror what is needed by area companies.

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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

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All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.” And that did happen for male participants in the study, who did better on a post-video quiz about the material when a happy voice delivered the material than when a sad one did.

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