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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

I found that students were happy using the technology, but some would rather complete work pen to paper or do an assessment/project without the technology. . After a year of blended instruction, or a combination of face-to-face learning and online learning, schools are questioning the amount of time students spend in front of screens.

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Can Colleges Do More to Help Students Succeed?

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Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores dipped to the lowest theyve ever been, falling two points on average for fourth and eighth graders. Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

Today’s case in point is an odd article in Insider Higher Ed. “ HyFlex Is Not the Future of Learning ” starts off by complaining about that form of teaching, then becomes a general complaint about online learning. Next he praises the on-campus experience, in contrast to online learning.

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Sal Khan’s New Online School Wants to Make ‘Mastery Learning’ Global

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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. There are currently 50 students, all ninth graders.

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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

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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. If people found something of value in an online course that can inform their work—even if they didn’t earn the certificate—I see that as a net positive.

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An overview of active Learning.

Linways Technologies

The technology in the classroom, or to aid the teaching-learning, helps the teacher to use interactive techniques and provides open-ended problems to solve using what the students have learned. And this would help teachers to assess and correct the errors in the thinking of students. The post An overview of active Learning.

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How Colleges Are Thinking Differently to Serve Adult Students

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I know you and I have talked about using problem-based learning, thinking about prior learning assessments, not assuming that adults need to be taught everything from square one but that they bring interesting work and life experiences to the table. My own institution has worked quite collaboratively with others.