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Homeschool vs. Online School: What’s the difference?

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The home can be the best place to learn for certain students. If you have an easily overstimulated child, you can create a study nook that caters to their unique needs in a way that isn’t possible in a traditional classroom. Is homeschool the same as online school regarding learning outcomes?

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Getting the most ROI from your classroom technology

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Instead, students learn from an all-in-one multimedia machine that features full interactivity. Academic studies confirm that interactivity and active learning can greatly enhance student engagement in the classroom. What’s more, both teachers and students seem to enjoy learning better when they use interactive whiteboards.

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How Professors Can Use AI to Improve Their Teaching In Real Time

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It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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Adult Learners Need Their Own EdTech Tools, Ed Department Report Finds

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To help adult learners, edtech tools should be designed for their needs and goals, support them in virtually communicating with instructors and classmates and offer them a smooth mobile experience, according to a new report published on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education.

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If Edtech Efficacy Research Ignores Implementation, How Does It Help Improve Education?

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If we really want to understand how effective educational technology tools are for improving learner outcomes, we need to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. As instructors consider technology tools for their courses, they are increasingly looking for evidence of effectiveness. What is implementation science?

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There’s a New Wave of AI Research Coming to Transform Education

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“Mostly we’ve been looking at two-minute problems that are more logical and have a clear set of steps to get at an answer, and that’s what AI is able to help with,” Roschelle says of AI learning tools. But when we look at our goals for learning these days, there are better things to learn. Online education is boring.

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To Boost Engagement, Give Tech Savvy Students Interactive Content

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"They want to learn in ways that are more interactive—both in class and in the tools they use to learn. To be impactful, we can’t teach the way we did 20 years ago and expect to keep them involved engaged in their studies, because our students today don’t learn the same way.”. Full size image here.

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