Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

And, that makes access to adequate and reliable broadband even more important as the development of new technologies continues. Marc Johnson, Executive Director of East Central Minnesota Educational Cable Cooperative (ECMECC), then provided perspective from a regional and local level on the expanding use of broadband.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These days senior college leaders should be eager to find out, as enrollment overall is falling even while interest in online courses is on the rise. In contrast, enrollment in online courses shot up from nearly 34 percent over the 10-year period and leaped 110 percent in the first years of the pandemic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

Check with your local broadband provider to see if they have free access programs. Google’s Be Internet Awesome –abbreviated course. Access community hotspots and open WiFi, often made available by local businesses who are eager to assist. When you have internet access, download work from Google Classroom to work offline. Keyboarding.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. To prevent the lesson going off-course, make sure the technology you invest in has compatible software that is up-to-date and made to work with your hardware, which is intuitive and easy for you to use.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Of course, the trend for hybrid learning (which combines both classroom and virtual teaching settings) was accelerated during lockdown, this is here to stay even though cases and lockdown measures are declining. The Rise of Hybrid Environments.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

However, it also brings some less obvious downsides: licensing digital instructional materials are not necessarily less expensive for schools than purchasing textbooks (even without factoring in device and broadband costs), which strikes many as counter-intuitive; much like the cable TV channels you pay for but never watch, the publisher remains in (..)

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

For instance if you only have one laptop with broadband access that requires a teacher sign-in, then look at designing project-based learning modules with teams of students where online research is simply one component of a larger project. Focus on the positive, work with what you have and get creative. Conclusion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. Has internet connectivity been ensured? Before you invest in any technology, it’s important to check your IT infrastructure. So, before you do anything, check this.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2018

A recent Mobile Beacon report analyzing mobile broadband usage by non-profit organizations, including schools, finds that schools utilizing Mobile Beacon’s 4G LTE internet service indicate that the ability to supplement and/or extend existing school networks is the greatest benefit of the service.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 30, 2019

Robust broadband that fully supports digital learning requires that each part of a district’s network be working in unison and at full capacity. If one or more of the pieces of the network is broken or underperforming, then high-speed broadband and therefore rich, digital learning content cannot reach students’ devices.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2017

This diversity is driven by: advancements in online learning system design, rapid roll-out of broadband world-wide, the changing dynamics of the labor market and. Where once high school graduates had a “College or Bust” mentality, today’s high school graduates have a surfeit of higher education options.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

Madison Selby was already disappointed that her courses at the University of Washington were going online as part of the effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The differences between a well-planned online course and a classroom-based course that’s forced to adapt can be sizable. But adaptation has its limits.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

In Albemarle County, Virginia, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, radio towers rise above an apple orchard on Carters Mountain, outside Charlottesville. We’ve kind of realized that schools aren’t necessarily the best at operating broadband networks, so we should let people specialize.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. While 92 percent of adults from households earning $75,000 or more per year say they have broadband internet at home, just 56 percent of adults from households earning below $30,000 say the same.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

” To help increase digital literacy awareness in underserved communities, Broadband Rhode Island , a partner with RIFLI, created a curriculum in 2011 for adult education teachers to promote digital literacy among adult learners. At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Higher education, of course, is decidedly different from those consumer sectors. Consumers could place classified ads for free on sites such as Craigslist and advertisers could more efficiently reach their target audiences with digital advertising through Facebook or Google. Again, digital disruption had upended an industry.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And there are indeed sharp disparities in home access to computers and reliable broadband service. Every student — not just the marginalized and disenfranchised — needs sound course design, sufficient student support and testing programs that make sense and protect integrity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Research indicates that the right message sent at the right time can change the course of a family’s success in school. Research indicates that the right message sent at the right time can change the course of a family’s success in school. Mini happens to be a chatbot. Build trust and improve family engagement with a chatbot.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She attends a highly resourced school with computer science courses, well-trained teachers and one computing device per student. Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home. Jennifer is in sixth grade. She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

As a district in a small, rural community, they suffered from the kind of broadband access issues that were spotlighted by the pandemic. Of course, that kind of high-tech surveillance in schools has raised privacy concerns.) Quite frankly, I’m embarrassed,” Caposey said.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

For example, there is no point spending thousands of dollars on new equipment if you don’t have the required WiFi connectivity, infrastructure or broadband speed for it. Find a system which hosts and/or recommends courses for staff CPD and logs appraisals and performance. Read more: Don’t forget about pedagogy when chasing technology!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. Unity and Unreal), blockchain and, of course, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 3, 2024

Broadband access, CPU speed, graphics processing, multi-media production in terms of sound, image, film, and other innovations have placed significant demands on the technology industry. Of course, it has been too eager to respond as an industry grounded in business principles.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As much as 50 percent of employees in the country could be working in roles that require programming or software skills by 2030, according to estimates in a 2016 report by the National Broadband Network and the Regional Australia Institute. Also new is Trilogy’s recent acquisition of Firehose Project, an online coding course.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

schools accessing high-speed broadband, and devices all but ubiquitous in the classroom, the question is no longer whether teachers and students are using technology, but how. Kolb, who co-teaches the course with two University of Michigan colleagues, emphasized that the course is not “sit and get. With 99 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Years before the University of Phoenix launched its first online course in the U.S., powered by CompuServe, an early online service provider, the University of Toronto, achieved the historical distinction of running the world’s first-ever completely online course five years earlier in 1986. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

The key constraint in the classroom is time, in the school day and over the course of the school year. A survey of schools and libraries done by the FCC in 2010 found that 80% reported that broadband services did not “fully meet their current needs.” We can evaluate a student’s progress and adjust plans as needed. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures. Runners up to VR, in descending order, were augmented reality, education features on social media, personalized chatbots, and drone delivery of course materials.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Of course, the fault lines exposed by the coronavirus were there long before the pandemic took hold of our classrooms, made manifest in stagnant student performance and college completion rates. Without the ability to chart a course, they will struggle to transition. Many offices were arguably ready to go online.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Today we joined Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin as she announced the Oklahoma Connect and Learn Initiative , a coordinated effort to bring high-speed broadband and digital learning opportunities to schools across the state. We want to see all students in Oklahoma—and across the country—get online at speeds that can support digital learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2023

The reality, of course, is always going to be different. We realized that these markets were being poorly underserved, and for a lot of different reasons—for instance, it’s incredibly difficult to run broadband out to locations in the middle of nowhere. So it is when discussing the idea of digital equity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access. Howard : I think connecting online, if you can of course, is nice. And research indicates that students from low-income backgrounds could fall further behind their peers if learning stops too long and the country sinks into recession.

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Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 218

Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She mentions looking forward to incorporating our self-paced course, LearnACP , to empower even more library staff with a certification that equips them to support successful enrollment in the benefit.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We also work in partnership with the state’s broadband office, Broadband Ohio. The United Way of Greater Cincinnati received an FCC Outreach grant, which has allowed our team to bring awareness of the ACP to the regions we serve. Q: Can you tell us how the United Way of Greater Cincinnati is advocating for ACP renewal?

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