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Students Know What They’re Looking for Online. Are Colleges Delivering What They Want?

Edsurge

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. Surveys of remote college students show that their top priorities are convenience and flexibility. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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Millions of Students With Home Internet Access Still Can’t Get Online

Edsurge

Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. Students and families who are considered under-connected are those who have internet access and devices in their home, but not at a caliber or quality sufficient for smooth and consistent online learning. That’s bad news.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learningbroadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

While most schools across the country are fully back in person, students continue to struggle to complete homework assignments or participate in remote learning because they lack adequate internet service and access to a computer at home — a phenomenon commonly referred to as the “homework gap.” The homework gap isn’t new.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Coronavirus gave many just days. We flipped this switch almost literally overnight.

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The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One

MindShift

We have managed to troubleshoot the mobilization of meal programs, lack of technology equipment, online teacher training, and a whole host of issues that come with a change of this magnitude. “Three days to conduct a survey of technology needs from 130,000 students and to prepare thousands of computers for student use.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Students with the internet at home could access online learning activities offered by the district or participate in virtual classrooms, while packets were provided for children without the ability to log on. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill.

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