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Fostering a sense of belonging and a personal connection is seen as fundamental by many educational researchers, regardless of the learning environment. Online learning certainly provides flexible learning opportunities but comes with notable issues. For online learners, nurturing a sense of belonging may present a way of improving their experiences and attainment, as well as […]
This article examines the use of the phrase best practices in academic literature that discusses online learning. Results of our study indicate that, despite the ubiquity of this phrase in academic literature concerning online pedagogy, the majority of articles lack empirical support for promoting certain approaches as best practices. Faculty and administrators would be well […]
The inequitable ways the move to remote learning has affected different groups of students; are recession-affected students flocking to online courses? What’s happening with the fall semester? Inside Higher Ed
As K-12 schools move to fully online learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many educators are using free web and video conferencing platforms (such as Zoom) to connect with their students. While this is a worthy goal, the scramble to implement online learning on the fly inadvertently presents schools and their students with an […]
Philadelphia students will begin remote instruction next week — 38 days after they were last in classrooms, and they won’t learn new material until May 4, 52 days after school was dismissed amid the pandemic. Center for Digital Education
In my experience, the key to successful online learning — or any learning for that matter — is recognizing that durable, long-lasting and serviceable knowledge is acquired when there is increased cognitive effort. In the world of remote or online teaching, that’s not always easy to achieve. Campus Technology
RESTON, Va., April 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. today announced the debut of its K-12 remote learning solution, Blackboard Unite for K-12, a holistic suite of tools and resources providing K-12 districts with the tools and best practices needed to transition to a virtual learning model. Blackboard
A drastic experiment in progress’: How will coronavirus change our kids? At the start of World War II, millions of children were evacuated from London and other cities and sent to live with foster parents in the English countryside. What happened to these children became a subject of study for psychoanalyst Anna Freud, who wrote […]
In March 2020, Congress and the Trump Administration negotiated and passed a $2.2 trillion emergency relief bill to combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. EDUCAUSE worked to keep its members informed and engaged in supporting the higher education community’s request for the relief package, which ultimately yielded $14 billion in funding for colleges and […]
With the massive and abrupt move to remote teaching and learning, higher education institutions need to address course grading and exam proctoring to maintain educational continuity. EDUCAUSE Review
