Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. schools who took NWEA’s MAP Growth in fall 2020, with a comparison of the results to fall 2019. All in this Edtech Reports Recap.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Here are five online math resources that will turn boring math into a favorite subject: Mathletics. Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. Free on the web; fee for the app.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Megan Brenan, a research consultant and Gallup who worked on the poll, said the uptick in the reported engagement in online learning is not surprising, and she expects to see it inch higher in subsequent weeks as districts formally roll out their remote learning plans.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 16, 2019

The traditional classroom encourages competition between students but pointing out winners and losers and making comparisons about who’s better than whom is not something introverted students appreciate. But in an online learning environment this pressure between wanting to be the best and not losing friends dissipates into thin air.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Take an online course. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. In this post, I’d like to suggest some ideas for how teachers who are new(ish) to CS can go beyond the Hour of Code.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 13, 2020

There is no one singular way to ensure that kids are learning (sustainably) in a remote learning environment. Much of the research has been done at the HigherEd level and while comparisons can be made, there aren't a set of standards or rules that can guide K12 effectively. It doesn't mean to pile on either.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 7, 2018

Most tests are designed to make efficient comparisons between groups , not tell us about individuals. Group comparisons are valuable because they give us data about curriculum efficacy and how to allocate funding. The best predictor is high school grades. Tests are designed to be efficient and compare groups.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 19, 2018

Though classroom learning is still preferred as a mode of teaching in many institutes, the popularity of online learning is slowly overshadowing traditional learning. college students find digital learning technologies helpful. As per Statista, 43% of U.S

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 9, 2021

Their research also found that a comparison group, whose ST Math usage remained constant, had lower math gains within the same time period compared to the group that increased ST Math usage. Still, there were no worksheets, lengthy word problems, or dry textbook reading—only ten extra minutes of having fun playing with JiJi.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The reason is, you need to have access to various online resources, such as articles, blog posts, publications in journals, etc. Modern tools allow running student papers for comparison with many different sources. Luckily, plagiarism detection software has it. Take Unicheck , for instance.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 8, 2017

To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 16, 2023

In particular, UNIVERSE by ViewSonic is interested in how the metaverse can function as a tool for creating a sense of belonging and inclusivity within an online learning environment. . It can be considered a digital representation of a person within an online environment.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Create An Analogy: Encourage students to make a comparison or create an analogy. An analogy, or comparison, challenges students to think about a thing’s qualities or characteristics to explain how it is similar to something else.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Image Credit: Microsoft Education Many schools have turned the difficulties of adapting to remote and hybrid learning into opportunities to transform how they use technology and enable greater equity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Success in an MBL program is defined by the achievement of competencies , not intangible performance measures or student-to-student comparisons. If you use a system that spirals learning (like Everyday Math ), or circles back constantly on specific skills. If your school is developing a robust online learning option for students.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s important to keep in mind that older students may have differing needs in comparison to the youngest students, where one hour of high-quality digital activities is always the limit. Prioritize active digital activities, like online learning games or interactive lessons, over passive activities (like watching a video).

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Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2017

Another method of getting students more involved and more interested in having debates, discussions and comparisons. The online learning systems offer quite a generous array of collaboration tools for students and teachers. Get everyone talking.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Effectiveness varies based on individual needs, preferences, and circumstances Discover online learning vs. classroom learning research Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends The effectiveness of online learning versus classroom learning is a contentious topic in education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

As a longtime official in online-education programs, the puzzling question to me is why, after more than two decades, does online represent merely a third of college enrollment? By comparison, for example, learning management systems captured more than 90 percent of universities years ago. At the current rate of 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

Eighty percent didn’t and they didn’t do much better than the 800 students in the comparison group who didn’t get tutoring, according to a draft paper by researchers from Teachers College , Columbia University, which was posted to the Annenberg Institute website at Brown University in April 2024. (

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. And how is edX doing by comparison? EdX is like a distant No.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

You may argue that schools need to cater to the learning needs of hundreds of students every day, while mothers only have one to five kids (more or less) to worry about. So my comparison is somewhat invalid. Offering personalized learning experiences to all students in all schools is not an idea that belongs to a far-fetched future.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Source: “Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning Platforms,” August 2020 Learning at Scale. In early trials in which 11,000 students completed more than 370,000 online homework problems, the teacher hints seemed to be more effective.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2022

Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? In comparison to the program’s other courses, this one is relatively obscure; only 25,000 students take the AP Art History exam each year. As the class has progressed, I have noticed that we are learning primarily about European, specifically Christian, art.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

We will know that we are accomplishing our goals and fulfilling our mission when Outer Coast students experience greater success and meaning in comparison to their peers in their education, careers, communities and lives overall,” Sweeney-Taylor said via email. Will tomorrow’s students flock to the convenience of affordable online learning?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to United States Census Bureau projections , by the year 2034, there will be 77 million people ages 65 and older in comparison to 76.5 Revolutionize adult education and develop creative, flexible online learning to address skill gaps. million persons under the age of 18.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 13, 2020

I cover a range of themes around online learning support, and apply several well known theories to explain what is required in digital learning environments.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Chen uses the Reader to restructure contemporary newspaper and magazine articles into bite-sized “Pondlets,” highly visual interactive online learning modules. Gordon is using traditional AP prep materials as well and says Ponddy holds up well by comparison. It’s nice to have an opportunity to do that.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

But of course, like everyone else in edtech, the rush of schools to online learning could change priorities for Instructure. Instructure founder Brian Whitmer also cautions against easy comparisons between Instructure and rival Blackboard, which itself was sold to a private equity firm in 2011 after a time as a publicly traded company.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Can a “Netflix”-like subscription model really work for online education platforms? Investors who are fond of analogies and comparisons to consumer technology successes are betting on one New York City-based company to find out. Skillshare has raised $28 million in a Series C round led by Union Square Ventures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In comparison, the drop in new students was only about half as much at public and nonprofit four-year institutions, which tend to serve higher income students. Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Tailoring learning to students’ exact needs takes significant resources, teacher training and, ideally, close collaboration with families — something many schools struggle to pull off. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. It maybe takes inclusion a step forward.”. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

I personally think that there needs to be a way to make comparisons across schools and districts,” says Horn. Even more troublesome is the notion of conflating CBE with online learning. One can imagine the headaches if every CBE school or district were to create its own rubric for assessing mastery. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

But these “action research” studies are often poorly designed without comparison or control groups and their conclusions — my idea worked! His nonprofit arm, the Learning Agency Lab, launched the Teacher Run Experiment Network this 2020-21 school year. — are colored by teacher subjectivity.

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EdTech4Beginners

AUGUST 24, 2024

There are also applications that further aid in the online learning experience. The reason behind this is simple—online schools have WAY less overhead. By comparison, some online schools are as little as half the cost per credit hour. They are expensive to run, and therefore, cripplingly expensive to attend.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

This kind of intensive tutoring – three times a week or more during the school day – is new and the school districts didn’t have previous pre-pandemic tutoring contracts for comparison. But generally, if all the student goals are met, companies stand to earn more in an outcomes-based contract than they would have otherwise, Walker said. “It’s

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