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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

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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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Mississippi Partners with AIM Institute for Customized Literacy Training

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AIM Pathways will offer two hybrid courses customized for Mississippi teachers and leaders beginning in August that include asynchronous learning as well as two in-person training sessions with experienced AIM facilitators. Designed for Educational Leaders).

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Is Higher Ed Really Ready to Embrace Hybrid Learning?

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As online learning becomes more mainstream and hybrid programs more mature at colleges, serving online students will become more of a core business function for institutions, Garrett says. There is an operational window in which a school is ambitious enough to need help but not so mature that they can do it themselves,” Garrett explains. “On

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Why combining assessments and LMS technology is essential

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Assessments are more than just measuring how well students are doing in particular subjects in school, and they can actually improve student learning. Testing the use of Canvas quizzes in seven online courses and five hybrid courses, the researchers designed quizzes for each student and for each quiz attempt.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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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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The Emerging Story of Burnout in Educational Design

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This is increasingly leading to burnout in the field—just as colleges seek more and more instructional designers to build online and hybrid courses. Yet despite the scope of instructional design, it is not typically considered a profession, and is frequently looked at by professors as mere tech support.

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Faculty Say Online Programs ‘Cannibalize’ On-Campus Courses at George Washington University

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That growing number of online and hybrid courses at GW was listed as a reason behind the need for the report, along with backlash the university has received about its online programs in the past. The point is that [part-time instructors] are very attractive in the online programs because they are inexpensive.