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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

Neo LMS

More students today are enrolled in virtual classrooms and take online or blended classes, create online assignments and get their grades in an online gradebook, to finally earn a degree online. Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020. Here are a few e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020: Video learning.

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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

Edsurge

In my first year of teaching, I was blessed to have a SMART board in my classroom. At least that was the case for a few months before a screw fell from the ceiling and landed in the middle of my classroom. My excitement was palpable given that this fancy piece of technology was (and is) a luxury for most educators.

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Do students buy into maker culture?

eSchool News

The maker industry is projected to grow to more than $8 billion by 2020, and with the maker movement infiltrating classrooms, after-school clubs and homes, it’s no wonder. Next page: How many projects are focused on the classroom?). Maker culture is going mainstream. But where is the maker movement strongest?

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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

The Hechinger Report

A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population.

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OPINION: We ignore middle school students at our own peril

The Hechinger Report

million middle school students were in after-school programs nationwide in 2020, down from 2.3 In past summers, we’ve done project-based learning, in which students in every classroom come up with their own themes. And as demand is growing, participation has plummeted due to inadequate resources to support after-school programs.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

eSchool News

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% With Connect, students and instructors are provided with continuous support — in or out of the classroom. Students can apply on a rolling basis throughout the year and complete coursework on their own timeframe.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

About a third of higher education was entirely online before the pandemic, and the rest continued to be delivered face to face in brick-and-mortar classrooms, according to the research company Bay View Analytics. A student walks through a mostly empty college campus in Irvine, California, in October 2020.

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