Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Or so I thought.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. It’s really important to be working on the ground.”.

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Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

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APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We We need to change that.”. We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. Several other community colleges and universities across the state have used their federal relief funds to forgive student debt, in hopes that students will stay enrolled or dropouts will return. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Even as I suggest shortening the undergraduate experience, I also believe we should lengthen the time that alumni have access to their schools, so they can take advantage of lifelong learning interventions. For example, college faculty publish papers in journals with conclusions that incorporate policy and practical recommendations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” DeMillo links Crow to good old and doomed Fathom.com (1152).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Even though the biggest leap forward of the last few decades, for example — delivering courses online — appears to have lowered costs , the graduation rates of online higher education remain much lower than those of programs taught in person. One of these would transform even the way that students pay for higher education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Online education, we’re still told, will be education’s disruptor.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? Princeton University, for example, this year admitted only 1,896 students from among 32,804 applicants; Georgetown University had its third year in a row of record-low acceptance rates. “In

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

For kids, captioning is almost a waste of time,” said Harley Hamilton, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech affiliated with the Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS) , a joint project of the university and the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Again, the result is stunted learning. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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