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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

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They know that when it comes to learning and productivity, space matters. An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online.

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Balance the Delivery

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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. Even during the past school year, many educators who previously used the blended learning approach decided to reduce the amount of virtual learning.

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Colleges Have Embraced Online Learning. Will That Open Remote Teaching Opportunities for Faculty?

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Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Teaching and learning in unbounded time.

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How the pandemic accelerated the need for interactive learning spaces

Neo LMS

And while the beginnings were difficult and we’re still facing a lot of uncertainty, the frantic switch to online learning is no longer helping anyone. Indeed, one of the main problems that teachers have faced regarding online learning is student engagement. Don’t forget about project-based learning.

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What’s next? Lessons from the lockdown on traditional education

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Online learning is student-centered by default, having its own advantages and pitfalls. That’s because in online environments students are: responsible for managing their time: they are not constrained to a time and place to learn; even in synchronous online courses, it’s on them to be there.

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Can Colleges Do More to Help Students Succeed?

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Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning. All Radford students have the option to take University 101, a first-year seminar class that prepares them for the transition to college, both academically and socially.

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Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely

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This is all the more significant in an educational context, because teams of teachers are in turn responsible for looking after large groups of students who need to be ushered through the twists and turns of remote learning with aplomb. Mix things up with online learning resources & special events.

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