Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

Providing the varied inputs that learners need to thrive in a classroom demands that teachers have more than a single model for designing their learning experiences. How will you get to know your individual students at the beginning of the school year? Engage Learners in Conversation. How might you lean on digital tools (e.g.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

deLaplante: I started creating videos as an extension of my classroom teaching—some version of the flipped classroom where you're doing lectures all the time, you're doing the same intros to this figure, or whatnot. I think the broader reason why I was thinking along these lines was because I always had an interest in public education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Major innovation, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen explained, drives consumers from the mainstream to the periphery. Similarly, in their earliest days, online courses were basically lectures and readings made digital. The interactive medium was used for one-way communication, from teacher to student.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2015

A new, intuitive platform lets educators design their online courses—easily. As an educator, it’s hard to please today’s tech-savvy students with PowerPoints and lecture-on-video—but those are exactly the kinds of tools available for educators who don’t have time to learn online learning design 101.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This story on how blended learning can help schools reopen during the COVID pandemic, originally published on June 15, was eSN’s No. If schools remain closed, they’ll need to prepare for more remote learning. If schools remain closed, they’ll need to prepare for more remote learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

With the swift shift to remote learning, educators and education entrepreneurs alike are quickly learning that trying to replicate what happens in classrooms on an online conference call comes with a lot of ups and downs. Pius School (Melville, New Zealand) 2. Heck, I don’t even like doing that. Yep, he had no pants on.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Teachers got a crash course in creating video content when schools shifted online. They relied on videos out of necessity to explain concepts and model strategies while students learned from home. As teachers transitioned back into classrooms, many abandoned video in favor of live instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2018

Access to unlimited new information has created seemingly contradictory qualities in today’s students—more self-reliant and independent, but with a preference toward collaborative learning environments and comfortable learning with other students. The case for blending and online learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. Now is the time to fully embrace how physical classrooms can be improved by online techniques.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. 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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2024

In response to the challenges of COVID, a dissatisfaction with local in-person schools, and increasingly diverse needs of the high school student population, enrollment in US virtual schools is now over 300,000 with about 20% of students taking at least one online course. Social Media Integration.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Savvas recently acquired Outlier, an edtech startup that has created a portfolio of online, asynchronous dual enrollment courses — with real transferable college credit opportunities from a top 50 university — that enable high school students to earn dual credit while never having to leave their school building.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) shares a key trait with most the nation’s schools: Everything is happening online. The event’s broader agenda ranges from interactive lectures to sessions where thousands of attendees come together to hear speakers such as Kendi.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces. This year, schools are directing their energy towards supporting teacher well-being and reengaging students through innovative learning spaces and edtech.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

A few months ago, Debora Spar took the helm at Harvard Business School Online, after a rocky year-long stint as the president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. So what are her plans for this upstart wing of the august school? So what are her plans for this upstart wing of the august school?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Now, imagine this in a virtual school environment with everyone online. A 3D immersive environment fosters healthy social interactions while reducing learning barriers. Kevin Chu Chu: Online learning has been growing over the past decade. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. Do the dynamics change?

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I took a very similar approach when I taught online at The New School in Manhattan a few years ago.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Every student has different needs, priorities, and goals, and finding the right school requires looking beyond name recognition. A schools overall reputation matters, but whats more important is whether it has strong programs in your field of interest. Does this college offer the right programs for my career goals?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces. This year, schools are directing their energy towards supporting teacher well-being and reengaging students through innovative learning spaces and edtech.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones. Sarin compared a white professor having a computer agent deliver their lecture video in a “Black voice” to a performer in blackface. One possible solution? Devising a “genderless” virtual voice.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

AR/VR in K–12: Schools Use Immersive Technology for Assistive Learning. In K–12, assistive learning can be a tricky beast to tackle. 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. .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

One unusual aspect of the NEI model is to encourage professors to adopt online course materials developed at other universities. It’s not this kind of colonizing other schools with our cool and groovy toys [from MIT],” she stressed. Henderson says she has seen such an approach work well from her own experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

This online learning model doesn’t work for every child, but it is right for some. And as schools plan to reopen this fall, leaders should use this time to create high-quality distance learning options that could transform teaching and learning for the better.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Online Learning and Non-traditional Students. In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. Pedagogy for Professional Schools and Students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems. The problem with attempting to replicate in-person teaching online, though, is that it doesn’t work. Trying to control online learning variables, as online proctoring systems attempt to do, is futile.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

In Bentley, Alberta, Canada, missing school is just part of life. On winter days of extreme cold, buses don’t run and schools are closed. These are just a few of the challenges facing Lane Moore, principal at Bentley High School in the Wolf Creek Public School district.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That’s the view of Arthur Levine, in a new book called “ The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future ,” which he co-wrote with Scott Van Pelt, a lecturer and associate director of the Communication Program for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

Being one of the first, and largest, online learning platforms in the world, Coursera has gained some insights from its 124 million-strong user base about what it really takes to help people succeed in its digital classes. She’s now completing an online MBA from Western Governors University (WGU). Demand is out there.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Dear Teachers, Last week, the two of us had a conversation about school leaders who would be leading and making decisions related to the spread of COVID-19. That conversation turned into a set of guidelines that we published first with Global Online Academy and later with EdSurge. You can record lectures. And more lectures.

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