Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

It also empowers students to learn efficiently on mobile devices and during flexible hours, which is particularly valuable in hybrid and online learning contexts. Learning Analytics Learning analytics represents another foundational component of the Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

It also empowers students to learn efficiently on mobile devices and during flexible hours, which is particularly valuable in hybrid and online learning contexts. Learning Analytics Learning analytics represents another foundational component of the Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

She is being asked to use the knowledge and skills she has developed at work to scaffold new information related to the field of psychology. Tim’s mentor uses the shared online learning platform to validate that Tim is demonstrating empathy and support in the workplace and can reflect on that competency as a skill he is aware of developing.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

She is being asked to use the knowledge and skills she has developed at work to scaffold new information related to the field of psychology. Tim’s mentor uses the shared online learning platform to validate that Tim is demonstrating empathy and support in the workplace and can reflect on that competency as a skill he is aware of developing.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Trick now that sometimes takes the form of a fully online school, but that’s actually fairly rare. What we’re seeing much more commonly is students who are mixing on site and online learning. So there’s these two examples of how CTE taps into online learning. In their schedule.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

As schools, districts, and policymakers grapple with the realities of a rapidly evolving workforce that requires discipline-specific knowledge, high-tech know-how, and hands-on skills, there is a growing recognition that the traditional approaches to preparing students for the real world no longer suffice.

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JULY 18, 2025

Essential Computer Skills for Online Learning There’s no perfect age to start teaching kids computer skills. Mastering tools like PowerPoint and Google Slides lets students demonstrate what they’ve learned through visuals. As early as preschool, little learners can become familiar with a keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen devices.

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JULY 9, 2025

This year, the talented group of students is creating social media content across platforms to help build brand awareness and engage our audiences around the online learning experience. We asked them what makes online school so great, and here’s what Maxwell had to say. My K12 Why What do you like about online school?

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k12

JUNE 16, 2025

Only 8% of young entrepreneurs said their school was the main source of their business knowledge. The majority pointed to self-guided learning through the internet (34%), family members (18%), mentors (16%), and peers (16%). This suggests that while formal education helped, much of what they learned came from outside the classroom.

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JUNE 10, 2025

This year, the talented group of students is creating social media content across platforms to help build brand awareness and engage our audiences around the online learning experience. We asked them what makes online school so great, and here’s what Kylah had to say. My K12 Why What do you like about online school?

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JULY 1, 2025

This year, the talented group of students is creating social media content across platforms to help build brand awareness and engage our audiences around the online learning experience. We asked them what makes online school so great, and here’s what Madilyn had to say. My K12 Why What do you like about online school?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Public school districts can move to online learning in incremental steps — just one day a week. These days it seems most school-wide blended learning programs are taking place not in traditional public education, but in charter schools—for one big reason: Charter schools are able to essentially start from scratch.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Plenty of content was used without permission of the copyright owners–some under legitimate “fair use,” some out of lack of knowledge, and some opportunistically. Online learning platforms and other edtech tools gained traction.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

As learning becomes more accessible, credit recovery programs are evolving. Online learning is playing an increasingly important part in credit recovery for students with a variety of academic needs, according to a new report from the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

As more and more fields require technical knowledge, it is a good idea to equip our young learners with basic STEM skills early on. With online schools, it is invaluable to start teaching these concepts at a young age, which is why STEM curriculum is now being introduced at the elementary level.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

She also explained how providing structured learning activities, in which students can draw on concepts, tools, and processes, helps the students make sense of educational experiences and build knowledge. Creating a generation of problem solvers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2020

As an implementation coach and educational specialist for a reading program, we would like to share two simple tips no matter what area of reading your student struggles with: finding effective resources and strategies, and building background knowledge.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2017

Video tutorials in the style made famous by Sal Khan of the Khan Academy changed the face of education, empowering anywhere, anytime learning. A Giant Leap Forward to More “Human” Online Learning. However, they were Tutorials 1.0. We now have Tutorials 2.0. The LightBoard has arrived.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A student’s cultural background or prior knowledge may impact their level of understanding or their specific interpretation of a word or symbol. Learning is a complex process in which learners take information and turn it into knowledge they can use when making decisions or approaching new and novel situations or tasks.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

Online learning has moved to the front stage as 90 percent of high-income countries are using it as the primary means of educational continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Department of Education, Richard is a go-to person for exploring the shift we are experiencing in learning today. It’s painful to watch.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification. In retrospect, Christensen was right—with one caveat.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a coaching session last week, it became clear that teachers could use basic templates to help them conceptualize how to take strategies they have used in the past to create lessons that will work in a concurrent classroom (or in an online learning scenario). Present-Pause-Discuss.

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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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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The goal of a playlist is to move students from point A (where they currently are in relation to content knowledge, skills, or a multi-step project or process) to point B (firm learning goals). I have a module dedicated to each in my Advancing with Blended Learning course. That requires data.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

UDL recognizes that every class comprises a wide range of learners with various needs, skills, experiences, knowledge, and interests. Every student, regardless of variability, deserves the best opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge regardless of the learning landscape.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2020

Even positions in traditionally non-STEM fields ( estimated to grow by 9 percent ) will require some sort of technological knowledge. Related content: 5 reasons to integrate STEM into online learning. STEM learning is all about designing creative solutions for real-world problems.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 23, 2024

Students inspired by learning trends and faculty guidance have the opportunity to be positively engaged in the online classroom. The online learning environment consists of a web-based learning atmosphere where student and faculty experiences and positions are located in separate geographical locations.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. By utilizing a two-channel approach to deliver instruction, the presenter can use voice and visual hand movement to help the learner codify knowledge (Mayer, 2021). Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al.,

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This blend of online and offline learning can happen exclusively in the classroom with the station rotation and whole group rotation models. It can combine both in-class and online learning at home with the flipped classroom and playlist models. There are three main ways to approach differentiation.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The same class may have students who don’t have the necessary prior knowledge or language skills to understand the information presented. The teacher may use academic or subject-specific vocabulary unfamiliar to a student with limited background knowledge or who is not a native English speaker.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

As teachers navigate online learning, hybrid schedules, or the demands of the concurrent classroom, I’ve recommended the station rotation model. In our current situation, it is necessary to emphasize that a “station” does not need to be a physical location in a classroom, but rather it is a learning activity.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Students learn at different rates, and from diverse ways. Efficient reading is best for some students to gain knowledge, while others rely more on audio visual materials. These tools deliver personalized learning and training that can automatically adjust to an individual’s learning competence.

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