Distance Education

Youngsters learning how to read are facing a “COVID-19 slump” and early learning experts say it will likely fall on parents to play catch-up this summer or risk their child falling behind. Students already lose roughly 30 per cent of their school year reading gains during summer break, explained Guofang...

Over the past couple of weeks, there have been discussions focused on the need for computer science curriculum in schools. During recent Twitter chats and in webinars and panel discussions, educators have shared concerns about bridging the K-12 computer science gaps. There is a growing need for students to develop skills in coding and in STEM-related fields however, there are either real or perceived barriers to providing these opportunities for students.

relevance shows the huge gap between what traditional universities teach and what global employers actually look for. It’s not a secret that universities focus a bit too much on theory. Over the past few years, there has been the emergence of a number of alternative credential providers trying to...

Youngsters learning how to read are facing a “COVID-19 slump” and early learning experts say it will likely fall on parents to play catchup this summer or risk their child falling behind. Students already lose roughly 30 per cent of the school year’s reading gains during summer break, explained Guofang...

Want to dig for cultural artifacts in Egypt? Teleport to the Rocky Mountains for ecology class? How about drawing in three dimensions? Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) enable these astonishing feats with spatial computing applications via headsets, tracking software, immersive projection, and mobile apps. AR and VR, often...

Parent preferences for how their children attended school throughout the pandemic have been disparate. Many polls and media reports have tracked the differences in parent preference for in-person versus remote learning, including USC Dornsife’s Understanding America Study (UAS). Our most recent UAS data, collected from 1,510 K-12 parents between mid-April...

Suffice to say, the last year and a half of school has been unprecedented, challenging for some and nearly impossible for others. When COVID-19 shut down schools in the spring of 2020 many teachers who were used to instilling knowledge through hands-on interactions with children were relegated to video chatting for 6-7 hours a day instead. At the beginning of this school year, some districts reopened while others remained closed, and some adopted a hybrid model where students could come to school while others stayed home and conferenced in. It’s been a long road, but with vaccines widely distributed and vast improvements made to testing infrastructure, it’s looking like many schools will be fully reopening in the fall.

The Covid-19 pandemic was extremely difficult for school students and when colleges shut down and went to remote courses, many students chose to take time off — a niche 12 months or perhaps a hole semester — instead. Postsecondary enrollments dropped 2.5% in the fall of 2020, almost twice the...

Since the start of the pandemic, Mdm Shuhannah, a teacher from Madrasah Alsagoff has had to adapt in keeping tabs on her students. Since she is unable to interact with her class face to face, the Primary 4 Science teacher has taken to using Apple Books to compile and annotate notes for her daily lessons, Classroom to keep track of her student’s live progress as well as Pages to inspire her students to come up with creative narratives and publish them as digital books.

After almost a year and a half of disrupted schooling due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most students will be heading back to traditional in-person school next fall. However, many parents wonder what the impact of distance and/or hybrid learning has been on their kids. To varying degrees, most kids across...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors to adapt their courses for online learning. Laboratory courses were particularly difficult due to lack of access to specialized equipment for remote learners. To overcome this challenge, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign designed a laboratory exercise to teach students how to use micropipettes, through remote learning, using at-home kits.

Pupils at Falkirk High School have been told to study at home for the next week after an outbreak of the Indian variant. Staff and pupils will be tested for Covid at a mobile unit. BBC Scotland understands up to 160 pupils are self-isolating. The school confirmed it would move...

Concerns about Inuktitut and French students in Iqaluit having different levels of access to online learning resources than English school students came up in the legislative assembly on Thursday. Pat Angnakak, the MLA for Iqaluit-Niaqunnguu, said constituents with multiple children attending kindergarten and elementary school in different languages have reported...

A little over a year ago, it became clear that the pandemic would change school as we knew it for the foreseeable future. And some parents, still reeling from the “bad joke” that was ‘Remote Learning: Spring Lockdown Edition,’ scrambled to place their isolated, zoom-weary kids in learning pods or micro-schools. The goals were universal: To provide students a safe place to socialize and learn in-person. But the shape these pods took—and their outcomes—were all over the map.

LG Business Solutions is debuting a series of technology-agnostic interactive displays aimed to take teaching and learning to the next level, according to a press release. The LG TR3DJ is available in 65-, 75- and 86-inch models which ensure students can view educational presentations in a socially distanced approach, and also support virtually any learning system a school deploys for in-person as well as hybrid/remote learning, according to a press release.

The start of the pandemic sent shockwaves through Australia’s fourth-largest export sector: higher education. Overnight, students suddenly grappled with delayed graduation and disrupted education. Among those most impacted was the group of nearly 90,000 international students. Many students from China, for example, were unable to return to Australian universities after traveling home for Lunar New Year. Universities also risked losing $3.1-4.8 billion in 2020 fees alone.

Best Of Both Worlds: Connect Formal Training With Informal Learning Opportunities. As many organizations make the switch to remote workforces, new L&D challenges have emerged. How to do you provide your telecommuting staffers with personalized support? Is there a cost-effective way to improve job performance by tapping into the peer-based feedback? This eBook offers insights to help you fuel continuous learning among your talent pool with informal learning opportunities. First, let's take a closer look at why innovation and lifelong learning are so crucial for business success.