eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic. In Oakland, 98 percent of all students now have a computer and internet service.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

What innovations might redefine the learning environment? The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. You might wonder why this preference exists.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And except for relatively new options by for-profit upstarts, the options haven’t changed much in decades, despite the rise of the internet and a knowledge economy. Oh, and there’s the COVID pandemic, which jolted all professors into using more online tools, and has brought further changes to the job market. College in the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. While there are many additional features to explore for accessibility (e.g.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Technology has profoundly impacted K-12 education, revolutionizing traditional teaching methods and opening new avenues for learning. The internet has become an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike, offering a vast repository of educational materials, research, and collaborative tools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis. So does lacking reliable access to a computer.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

EdSurge: Did you experiment with online courses while you were leading Barnard College? So we set up this committee that I called the COOL committee—the Committee Of Online Learning. We asked, “How do you take a small women’s liberal arts college in Manhattan and how should we go online?” Debora Spar: Barnard is small.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas. High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Since their glory days only a few years ago, MOOCs have been on the receiving end of much critique, and the false promises of democratizing education through simply connecting to the internet have been severely slashed. such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley?18

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Sparrow, the university’s senior director of teaching and learning with technology, thinks the fears that some faculty have about artificial intelligence taking their jobs echos the concern some had 20 years ago when higher education was first “branching out into online learning.”

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021).

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

And that has led to new teaching practices, mainly flipped classrooms where professors require students to watch video lectures for homework and use class time for more active discussions or hands-on activities. Video also has greater “bandwidth” for communication, than text discussion forums, adding images to audio.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Welcome to the Hidden Curriculum of the Internet We often imagine learning as something that happens within school walls, books opened, teachers talking, students taking notes. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning. This is informal learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 20, 2020

We had our chance this summer to get better at online learning. Whether we’re face-to-face, blended, hybrid, hyflex, or fully online, we need to be thinking deeply about what our students need from us this fall. Listening to teacher lectures and doing rote, low-level desk work isn’t going to help her stay engaged.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

Technology helps educators give each student the attention he or she needs, through tools such as online learning modules, personal tablets and, now, virtual and augmented reality. . AR and VR technology can make lectures and books more immersive and interactive, which can reduce distraction.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

So to keep class schedules as flexible as possible, and to offer more sections without putting up new buildings, UCF leaders have turned to offering more online courses for students on campus. It has always seemed strange to me that students living on campus would choose to take courses online. We’ve been okay with that up until now.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

While Zoom was the “it” word during the pivot to online learning throughout COVID-19, it is high time to consider alternatives to synchronous online classes that benefit student learning. Interviews are also a good way to break up the number of lecture videos used in online classes.). & Archer, W.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

At its core, classroom learning provides a structured environment conducive to focused study and exploration. Within this setting, instructors deliver curriculum content through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and other instructional methods tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021).

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

To start, he and his staff examined the research behind traditional high school models, online learning, self-directed programs in which learners work independently, and more customized outreach programs—traveling to see how these programs worked in other schools. Learners at Bentley are no longer held back by limited resources.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

We were joined by: Beth Kalikoff, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Washington, where in-person classes have been suspended for the rest of the quarter and some courses have moved online. Stephen Downes, a national expert in online learning technology who runs the long-running OLDaily newsletter.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Aoun said that early in the pandemic, many believed remote learning signified the end of the residential model of higher education. The consensus was that online learning would eventually do away with physical campuses. Since then, though, “we learned that this is not the case,” Aoun said. “We

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Children as young as two are utilizing tablets, exploring the apps on smartphones, and accessing knowledge via the internet. Or better yet, why should we integrate online learning into our classrooms ? Most online assignments are auto-graded and scores are sent directly to a digital gradebook for teachers.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

It’s called Deakin University, and started about 40 years ago—before the internet really got going—when distance education often meant sending lessons through snail mail. These days online courses have replaced correspondence at Deakin. But we’ve declared our other campus an online campus, and we call it the “cloud campus.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Teachers who used to lecture with a chalkboard or whiteboard may now lecture with an expensive interactive whiteboard. But it’s also a fear of letting kids have wide access to the Internet with the possibility of cyberbullying, access to inappropriate material, and exposure to online predators or even excessive advertising.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

“Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m If I were a betting woman, I would bet a hefty sum that my colleagues’ perceptions of asynchronous online learning are shared by tens of thousands of college instructors worldwide. caretaker, internet concerns). Glazier, R.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 28, 2020

Fortunately, most people have smartphones, and it is possible to access online teaching platforms from a phone. If your child’s school is giving online classes, they will be live group classes and lectures as well as recorded material that your child can view later. Check How Your Child Adapts to Online Teaching.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. We typically talk about the “last-mile” – the connection between the larger Internet network and neighborhoods and communities.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

“Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m If I were a betting woman, I would bet a hefty sum that my colleagues’ perceptions of asynchronous online learning are shared by tens of thousands of college instructors worldwide. caretaker, internet concerns). Glazier, R.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

Then, the instructor proceeds to conduct a short lecture where course materials such as the syllabus, slides, or videos might be shared with everyone through a QR code (see Figure 1). Students could make a copy of the slides or worksheets and take notes as they follow the lecture. The exercise could involve recall practice.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. I have used it to create quick and short review videos for content, lab procedures, and even study tips.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2018

This way of learning is attributed to the advent of the internet which has impacted the adoption of online learning software to facilitate formal education. LMSs are now being accepted as one of the ways to learn smartly. Seminars held online, are called webinars.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2018

Vivek Singh and his colleague, Ilya Mishra, are new contributors to Ask a Tech Teacher who specialize in online learning and educational technology (more on Ilya’s bio below). Blended learning overcomes this limitation by reducing the need for homework, and provides course content to students via the internet.

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