Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A Socratic seminar? Rather than just giving educators access to information about teaching strategies, micro-credentials help us provide educators with a chance to demonstrate that they can implement those strategies in their classrooms. Micro-credentials are truly authentic professional learning tools. Sounds great!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. It’s not dirt cheap, but it’s accessible.”

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Finally, many learning management systems offer free trials or even free plans , to let you have a taste of what it takes to create engaging online learning experiences for your students. Join a professional organization.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. MOOCs have done an incredibly good job of scaling access to high-quality learning content around the world.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. More colleges are using it for online learning, since it can make students and instructors more present to each other than most other media. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

The move to remote instruction — long before that model caught on in higher ed more broadly — came about as the institution searched for a way to stay relevant and accessible to more students given its geographic isolation, Kraft explains. People who do online do so because it fits their busy life,” Kraft says.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed modestly better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. Not all traditional learning experiences are equal.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Educational institutions actively leveraged digital portals and resources to deliver learning solutions and thrive in this evolving world. Online learning platforms supported and enhanced education delivery, driving learning initiatives through digital channels. We were all, quite forcefully, introduced to eLearning.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 13, 2023

Educational institutions actively leveraged digital portals and resources to deliver learning solutions and thrive in this evolving world. Online learning platforms supported and enhanced education delivery, driving learning initiatives through digital channels. We were all, quite forcefully, introduced to eLearning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. They were listing some of the silver linings that have come with the shift to remote learning in the wake of coronavirus. I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. They need to improve the online experience if they are going to continue in this manner.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Now, she spends four days a week in an unusually small seminar-style calculus class with 31 other aspiring mathematicians and engineers. “I

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District Administration

MARCH 30, 2015

District Administration, May 2015 Personalized blended and online learning programs have helped many districts provide access to more courses and to improve student outcomes. District Administration Custom Publishing Group. But how do you start a program and then scale it across your school and district?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2020

Some parents are demanding refunds because the experience their students are having this last semester, these online experiences, have been shoddy. There are a lot of professors who were not equipped or ready to teach online learning. It’s not the same thing as being in a classroom or in a seminar.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Academy of Active Learning Arts & Sciences brought together this panel to share, prepare, and help schools plan for the future of education in the time of a pandemic. Carl Hooker: We’ve all experienced this rapid transition to online learning; all of us have in some different form or fashion.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2019

CPD opportunities for teachers might include: : Workshops, seminars and conferences. Online learning. At your university, it’s important to understand the processes involved with getting extensions and accessing flexible class schedules. Professional reading. Mentoring others. Formal study.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2022

For instance, physical textbooks have been replaced by online learning modules. Classroom-style lectures have given way to self-learning. Learn Anytime from Anywhere . Cloud-based learning enables learners to plug into the learning experience at any time of the day at their convenience.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Evaluating Institutional Repository Metadata for Out of This World Access - Lizzy Walker, Metadata and Digital Initiatives Librarian InterPARES Trust: Examining the Benefits and Risks of Storing Records + Information in the Clouds - Patricia C. Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 14, 2024

Craddock has conducted seminars at the White House, the Bay Area MakerFaire, and South Carolina Association of School Libraries. Through her inspirational leadership, she has made it her mission to help underserved communities to ensure equitable access to technology, knowledge, and opportunity.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.

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Trends LMS Data MOOC 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instructional Designers, technologists, and online learning specialists are in high demand across all levels of education as it shifts online. Dr. Bryant is an active member of Educause, and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC); she also served as an Exemplary Course Program reviewer for Blackboard, Inc.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

I got this idea from a trauma-informed teaching seminar I went to as part of my professional development. One student told me later that she used it a lot during online learning throughout COVID and it really helped her focus and feel better. Then, I let students decorate the outside with paper and hot glue objects onto it.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. As an aside, I think we have massively overcomplicated online learning. Now I disagree.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. As an aside, I think we have massively overcomplicated online learning. Now I disagree.

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E-rate Learning LMS Course 32

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. So this summer might be the right time to learn a little more about online pedagogy. Ana Donaldson (book), gives practical guidance.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive? We sensed, correctly, that we had built a sufficient foundation for the students to take the lead on these interviews.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Almost everyone admits the potential of online learning, used selectively and wisely. While online classes do not work well for young children, many college courses worked well enough to demonstrate new potential for a post-pandemicfuture. He became Stanford’s first vice provost for online learning in 2012.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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