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Vander Ark, Tom – Educational Leadership, 2021
Throughout the pandemic, the Getting Smart team (which Tom Vander Ark leads as CEO) worked with public school districts in Kansas, Missouri, and Texas, as well as charter schools in six additional states to support hybrid, virtual, and return-to-school strategies and plans. During the year and a half that education systems spent in crisis…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Trends
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Kraft, Matthew A.; Simon, Nicole S.; Lyon, Melissa Arnold – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
COVID-19 shuttered schools across the United States, upending traditional approaches to education. We examine teachers' experiences during emergency remote teaching in the spring of 2020 using responses to a working conditions survey from a sample of 7,841 teachers across 206 schools and 9 states. Teachers reported a range of challenges related to…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, COVID-19, Pandemics, Emergency Programs
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Matthew Kraft; Nicole Simon; Melissa Lyon – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools across the United States, upending traditional approaches to education and requiring large scale school transformation on a pace never before seen. Though prior research on organizational change has emphasized the importance of working conditions for teacher satisfaction and student achievement…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, COVID-19, Pandemics, Emergency Programs
Yin, Jessica; Partelow, Lisette – Center for American Progress, 2020
Despite the importance of teachers, the preparation programs intended to train them and provide them with the foundational skills they need to grow into high-quality educators vary in format, curriculum offered, quality, and more. Alternative teacher certification programs that are run outside of institutions of higher education (IHE) are an…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Enrollment Trends, Proprietary Schools, Electronic Learning
Davis, Leanne; Pocai, Jennifer; Ajinkya, Julie – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2020
Talent Hubs are communities that have shown the ability and commitment to significantly increase college-level learning among residents of all backgrounds. Areas that have earned a designation as a Talent Hub truly work as a community, meaning businesses, education leaders, and civic organizations work as a unit to attract, cultivate, and retain…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Postsecondary Education, COVID-19
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Frizell, Michael, Ed. – Learning Assistance Review, 2020
The National College Learning Center Association defines a learning center at institutions of higher education as interactive academic spaces which exist to reinforce and extend student learning in physical and/or virtual environments. A variety of comprehensive support services and programs are offered in these environments to enhance student…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers
Kraft, Matthew A.; Simon, Nicole S.; Lyon, Melissa Arnold – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
COVID-19 shuttered schools across the United States, upending traditional approaches to education. We examine teachers' experiences during emergency remote teaching in the spring of 2020 using responses to a working conditions survey from a sample of 7,841 teachers across 206 schools and 9 states. Teachers reported a range of challenges related to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Conditions, School Closing
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Sharp, Laurie A.; Hamil, Marc – Online Learning, 2018
Much literature has presented evidence that supplemental digital resources enhance student performance with mathematics. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a web-adaptive digital resource, Think Through Math©, on student performance with state-mandated annual standardized mathematics assessments. This study utilized a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Educational Researchers, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Learning
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James, Scott; Swan, Karen; Daston, Cassandra – Online Learning, 2016
Online learning continues to grow at post-secondary institutions across the United States, but many question its efficacy, especially for students most at-risk for failure. This paper engages that issue. It examines recent research on the success of community college students who take online classes and explores similar comparisons using 656,258…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Two Year College Students, School Holding Power
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Kahle, David – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
In this article, I introduce a novel applet ("module") for exploring probability distributions, their samples, and various related statistical concepts. The module is primarily designed to be used by the instructor in the introductory course, but it can be used far beyond it as well. It is a free, cross-platform, stand-alone interactive…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Learning Modules, Probability, Statistical Distributions
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Pan, Cheng-Chang; Pierre Lu, Ming-Tsan – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2015
This quantitative inquiry aimed to investigate plausible generational differences among Hispanic learners in the context of e-learning. The investigation examined students' technology ability, learning activity preference, attitude towards technology use, and instructional strategy orientation at a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) of higher…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Hispanic American Students
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Marmon, Michael; Vanscoder, Jared; Gordesky, Josh – Current Issues in Education, 2014
Online courses provide students the opportunity and flexibility to attend college courses on their own schedule and within the comforts of their own home. While most enjoy the flexibility offered by this type of course delivery method and the quality between distance (online) and face-to-face courses being relatively equal, the question has been…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Mahadevan, Lakshmi; Peterson, Rick L.; Grenwelge, Cheryl – Journal of Extension, 2014
Increasing prevalence rates and legislative mandates imply that educators, parents, and Extension agents will need better tools and resources to meet the needs of special populations. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service addresses this issue by using e-learning tools. Extension agents can take advantage of these courses to gain critical…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Consciousness Raising, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities
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Mulqueeny, Kevin; Kostyuk, Victor; Baker, Ryan S.; Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: The expanded use of online and blended learning programs in K-12 STEM education has led researchers to propose design principles for effective e-learning systems. Much of this research has focused on the impact on learning, but not how instructional design impacts student engagement, which has a critical impact both on short-term…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learner Engagement, Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Miller, Ben; Fishman, Rachel; McCarthy, Mary Alice – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
New America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. Because community college students tend to be underserved by our current higher education structure, much of our research and subsequent policy analysis and recommendations…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Associate Degrees, Educational Research
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