Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

As students of all ages spend more time learning online, it’s worth asking, “How effective is online learning?” ” The answer varies dramatically and depends entirely on the design of the online learning experience. Community of Practice. Participation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2016

Those surveyed also said successful online and blended programs need the following: presence of student progress tracking and reporting tools. instructors who are well-trained in delivering online courses. measurement of student progress with initial and ongoing assessments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2021

British Columbia-based Q Academy, a pioneer in tech-focused education, taps into online learning with the soft-launching of Q Academy Kids (QA Kids), a coding and design platform for young people. It also makes available trial classes for free.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

Extron is committed to helping educational institutions of all sizes respond to the recent dramatic shift toward online learning. As part of this commitment, Extron is offering education customers special pricing and grants for its online learning solutions, including the SMP Series.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Partnering with an experienced provider to offer high-quality online learning is one way traditional schools can give students more options—and it’s an important strategy for attracting and retaining families. Choices in modality Although some students fell behind during the shift to remote learning, others thrived.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2020

Last week, I had the good fortune of stumbling onto John Savery’s article titled “BE VOCAL: Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors” in which he talks about the unique challenges facing teachers who are working with students in the online environment. Savery, J.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

Is the prevailing takeaway from this brutal, oppressive year a shared aversion toward online learning? The need to manage a single digitized space for teaching and learning often evolved into a shell game as they tried to bet on which moving part would contribute to an optimal learning experience, with limited support.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2025

How online learning can help The more career pathways that students can explore in high school, the greater the likelihood theyll find an option that appeals to them. Hiring and retaining instructors who are qualified to teach career-related courses can also be challenging for schools and districts of all sizes.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. There's not a lot of research on very young children and online learning,” Rice says. “So,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Much has changed since then, as the world of online learning built for working adults has grown. As an advisor at an online college, I know that adults are attracted to the flexibility of an asynchronous online learning environment and the pace of accelerated semesters.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Liberating campus-bound faculty.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Dear Bonni: How can we make student-to-student interaction more personable and engaging in online learning? Andrea Fuentes, Director of Online Learning, Doral College Cultivating an engaging environment can be a challenge when teaching online. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. Below are five lessons I learned as an online professor that helped me to adapt to and navigate the challenge of teaching online. #1

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

How will artificial intelligence and machine learning change teaching? It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. So his team built Inquizitive, a quiz generation engine.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. The responses always yield the same results.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. Even the book that I wrote about productivity was envisioned initially by the publisher as for online instructors, and then they asked if I would be willing to broaden the audience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. See if any of these traits sound familiar: Model a Good Instructor. Good online instructors are what we always wished teaching would be. ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2020

Here are a few tips and tricks to support student success in online education if you’re an instructor learning this new way of teaching. Nothing says you can’t do the same in an online learning environment through the use of digital tools like online forums, web chats, and social channels.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. Rochester Institute of Technology : Sandra Connelly, Instructor.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Advocates of online learning cite flexibility and access, while proponents of in-person instruction emphasize social interaction and hands-on learning. In online learning vs. classroom learning research debates, both sides grapple with balancing effectiveness and equity.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s take a look at some of the latest online learning trends: Is online learning really effective? Flexible, hybrid learning is key to student success. Schools should reimagine the learning processes and leverage in-person and hybrid learning to help students achieve the best possible results.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

If you have taught in higher education in the last 20 years, you have probably taught an online course. Online learning is one of the most prevalent modalities in higher education today and has only been made more visible by the COVID pandemic (Costa, Kavouras, Cohen, & Huang, 2021). References Coleman, M. link] Costa, S.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Students are more likely to expend effort and remain persistent in the face of challenges if they feel they are part of a dynamic learning community. Teachers can create a support network for students if they design lessons that encourage communication and collaboration.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Stachowiak suggests including at least three polls or opportunities to interact during each online class session. In fact, a lot of it's getting really critical, like, “What you're doing, that's not online teaching—you're not in the cool kids club.” But you're saying that this is not a time to say, “go away from online learning.”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone. But asynchronous courses, and especially asynchronous independent study courses, present a different scenario with challenges for both instructors and students. Who is my instructor?”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In another survey , this one from 2020, more than 80 percent of students said that the thing they missed most in online learning was being able to see and collaborate with other students and their instructors in person. One answer may lie in some of the technologies that are already making online learning possible.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

If students have the opportunity to learn about robotics, they will be able to directly apply the math learning with a real-world robotic application. Schools need to find alternative paths for recruiting CTE instructors. After the pandemic, the shortage of qualified CTE instructors has only grown.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

If you have taught in higher education in the last 20 years, you have probably taught an online course. Online learning is one of the most prevalent modalities in higher education today and has only been made more visible by the COVID pandemic (Costa, Kavouras, Cohen, & Huang, 2021). References Coleman, M. link] Costa, S.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

With that in mind, certain strategies, tips, and guidelines have been proven to help instructors begin what can seem like an overwhelming task—teaching a course without ever even needing to physically see her students. In our case, we collaborate with The Virtual High School , who we consider an online learning pioneer.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Virtual education leverages these connections to provide everyone, regardless of geographic location, access to experts and high quality learning experiences. Virtual learning will play a major role in the career and technical education space by increasing access to qualified instructors and by improving the knowledge base of all educators.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. McGraw Hill Connect® is a complete course platform.

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