Digital Learning - beyond eLearning and Blended Learning

As more and more colleges and universities have shut down their campuses to curb the spread of COVID-19, education technology companies have stepped forward to help move student learning to the virtual realm.

Learn how to teach online in this free teaching course designed to help educators teach and support their students online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are in the midst of the most sweeping education experiment in history. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the majority of the U.S.’s 3.6 million educators to find ways to teach without what most of them consider the core part of their craft—the daily face-to-face interactions that help them elicit a child’s burning desire to investigate something; detect confusion or a lack of engagement; and find the right approach, based on a student’s body language and participation in the classroom, to help students work through their challenges.

The good news is that this is happening at the end of the school year, after teachers have had opportunities to build relationships with their students. And in the past few decades, many educators have been experimenting with some promising technology-enabled approaches, sometimes called “hybrid,” or “personalized learning” models—essentially, a mix of in-person and online learning.

The author shares some advice and best practices for moving face-to-face courses online at midsemester on short notice.

Dr. Bethany Simunich, Director of Research and Innovation for Quality Matters, explains how the Higher Ed. and K-12 checklists can assist instructors as a job aid when moving to remote instruction in an emergency. Taking the student perspective is the cornerstone of creating a learning environment to support student success when changing modalities during a crisis.

The fall semester of 2020 is like nothing we have seen before in higher education. Most colleges and universities in the United States are conductin

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New York City’s 75,000 public school educators are facing a challenge unlike anything in their careers. For students to avoid permanent setbacks, the success of remote learning is critical.

Dr Lee said 5000 TAFE teachers would be upskilled in online delivery of their courses by distance education. As many as 1200 courses offered through TAFE will be delivered online.

"We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to avoid transmission of the virus," Dr Lee said. "We need to upskill 6000 full-time equivalent staff in online course delivery."