Online Learning Amid Pandemic Sheds Light on Digital Divide

(TNS) — From the rural Southern Tier to the shores of Lake Ontario, nearly 40,000 children across Western New York live in a household without either a computer or high-speed Internet. Center for Digital Education 

June 9, 2020 | Accessibility, Daily News, Digital Media, Governance, K-12

Online Clinical Training in the Virtual Remote Environment: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions

This article focuses on the clinical training aspects of a distance counselor education program and highlights what clinical courses look like in an online synchronized classroom. Using three courses as examples, including group counseling, child and adolescent counseling, and practicum and internship, the authors share unique challenges they have encountered and solutions they have adopted […]

June 7, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Online Training

Download Report: COVID-19: Strategies for Online Engagement of Remote Learners

Any crisis in a nation will always leave its impact on education in some way or another. Students’ right to education is threatened at times of crisis as a consequence of natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, war, disease outbreak, etc. The COVID-19 outbreak across the globe has forced educational institutions including medical schools to […]

June 7, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Offline Learning, Reports & White Papers, Teaching

Investigating the Usage and Perceptions of Third-Party Online Learning Support Services for Diverse Students

This article will explore usage patterns and perceptions of online learning support among university students. As higher education expands to include increasingly diverse student cohorts, alternative online-supported learning services have gained attention as a mechanism to support student success. However, there is a paucity of research regarding student perceptions and usage patterns for online support […]

June 5, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Learner Support Services

Using Virtual Teams to Map Digital New Generation Learning Environments into Tertiary Online Learning Spaces

The sudden emergence and rapid spread of COVID-19 is a reminder of our frailty, where the magnitude of the impact facing the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has become increasingly apparent. One way that we have effectively responded to this emergency educationally, has to become innovative in our relationship with technology. The […]

June 4, 2020 | Collaborative Learning, Conferencing, Daily News, Higher Education, Instructional Design

Editing for equity: Understanding instructor motivations for integrating cross-disciplinary Wikipedia assignments

Advances in both research and advocacy have demonstrated how Wikipedia-based education, as a movement, has grown exponentially in the last 10 years. As a result, academics know a lot more about specific learning outcomes that Wikipedia assignments might enable and are more familiar with issues of social equity (e.g., systemic biases related to gender) in […]

June 3, 2020 | Daily News, Digital Media, Higher Education, Instructional Design, K-12, Learning Design, Online Learning

Approaches to Open Education and Social Justice Research

Why a Special Collection on Open Education and Social Justice? Isn’t open education intrinsically a social justice matter? And why a focus on theorising open education and social justice? There has been long standing but separate practice and scholarship in both open education and social justice but the relationship has only become the focus of […]

May 31, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, K-12, Open Access, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Learning, Open Source

Ramping Up for Remote Instruction

Anticipating continued remote instruction this fall, nonprofits, ed-tech companies and institutions race to provide faculty with the resources and training they need to teach well online. Inside Higher Ed

May 31, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Online Learning, Online Teaching

Projection of Education Statistics to 2028

Projections of Education Statistics to 2028 is the 47th in a series of publications initiated in 1964. This publication provides national-level data on enrollment, teachers, high school graduates, and expenditures at the elementary and secondary level, and enrollment and degrees at the postsecondary level for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2028. […]

May 31, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, K-12, Management, Policy

Download Report: Teachers’ Use of Technology for School and Homework Assignments: 2018 –19

This report is based on the 2018–19 survey “Teachers’ Use of Technology for School and Homework Assignments.” This survey was conducted in response to a request from Congress about the educational impact of students’ access outside the classroom to digital learning resources, such as computers and the Internet. The survey responds to the congressional request […]

May 31, 2020 | Daily News, K-12, Learners, Teachers, Teaching