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How Online Learning Research Can Improve Remote Instruction

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“It’s one of the easiest things to do to really understand what that environment looks like, feels like and behaves like,” says Kerry Rice, a professor at Boise State University who has studied effective online learning. There's not a lot of research on very young children and online learning,” Rice says. “So,

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Removing Barriers with UDL and Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information.

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UDL and Blended Learning: Removing Barriers with Design

Catlin Tucker

When I lead training sessions on blended learning models, I sometimes experience pushback from teachers concerned with the time it will take to make a video or design a station rotation. Taking time to identify barriers in our design work is critical. Summer Learning Opportunities. Identify and Remove Barriers.

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Even though the flipped classroom encouraged teachers to record lectures and mini-lessons to send home with students for homework, video can be woven into the class period to shift control from teacher to learner. . “But, I don’t want to send videos home with students.” “What if students do not watch the video?

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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

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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. So what if there was a new model of university designed from scratch for 2022? And they’re not the first MIT professors to dream up new types of universities.

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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

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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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Coronavirus Has Led to a Rush of Online Teaching. Here’s Some Advice for Newly Remote Instructors

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First, the tips: The Simplest Way to Go Online is to Shift to a Video Conference Platform Stachowiak says that just lecturing to a webcam instead of an in-person class isn’t the best way to teach online, but it is the easiest way to switch. I love what many of the universal design for learning people say.