Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.). Ending Social Promotion.

Blended Learning 172

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 172

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. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

Education 137

Education Course Report Policies 137

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

Study 141

Study Data Report Personalized Learning 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said. They are in charge of their learning,” said Hayden. “We Overall, the rise of online learning — from MOOCs to Khan Academy — makes “blended” learning that combines computer and live instruction feel normal to students.

Personalized Learning 106

Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access. We didn’t even have infrastructure on tracking devices,” Thomas said.

Digital Divide 124

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 124

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions. Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). It’s not entirely a rosy account.

MOOC 40

MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.

Technology 52

Technology eBook Gamification Classroom 52

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.” Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Typically, students in-person do about 10 percent better than their peers who are enrolled in online coursework, Pigg noted. The decrease tracked with the department’s historical experience with online learning. Instructors were flexible and did the best they could in the situation with remote learning, he said.

Course 116

Course System Data Strategy 116

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

But, when he asked veteran teachers what tools they had recently found most helpful, “a lot of them talked about the personalized-learning training they received from Highlander,” he recalled.

Personalized Learning 110

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. Read more and register for this event here. This is very exciting research!

BYOD 46

BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 46

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.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

“Faculty,” as this year’s ECAR study put it , “have a love-hate relationship with online teaching and learning. Most faculty agree that online learning makes higher education available to more students, but few agree that online learning helps students learn more effectively.”

MOOC 56

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. We are making a clarion call for help.”

Elementary 121

Elementary Report Dropout System 121

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.” “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.

Education 89

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 89

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

And perhaps even more worrisome are the outcomes for the children of teenage mothers, who score lower than children of older parents in health, intellectual and behavior assessments.

Report 141

Report Accessibility Social Media Outcomes 141