EdCircuit StaffOnline Learning Design involves the decision-making about content, structure, timing, pedagogical strategies, sequence of learning activities, and the type and frequency of assessment in the course, as well as the nature of the technology used to support learning.
Online Learning Design in K-20 Schools
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Walk the Science Walk! Leverage Curiosity to Enhance Science Learning
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Meryl Butler
4 minutes readMeryl Butler, a K-5 Science Instructional Coach, advocates for a student-centered, inquiry-based method to transform science education.
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What Dreams May Come: An Open Letter From Lord Jim Knight on Learning
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EdCircuit Staff
7 minutes readLord James Knight, formerly the Minister for Education in England and current Managing Director of Online Learning at TSL Education, took time to answer questions about the state of online and blended learning in education across the globe. Lord Knight’s response to my last question about the future and expanse of online learning speaks,
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Cengage Learning Acquires Learning Objects
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EdCircuit Staff
2 minutes readCengage Learning Expands Institutional Business with Learning Objects’ Customizable Platform and Services for Online Programs; Acquisition Confirms Cengage Learning’s Position as an Integrated Digital Solutions Company
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Post: Preschool is good for children, but it’s expensive. So Utah is offering it online.
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EdCircuit Staff
0 minutes readCan 4-year-olds learn what they need to know for kindergarten by sitting in front of a computer for 15 minutes a day?Utah is betting they can. This year, more than 6,600 children across the state are learning by logging on to laptops at home in a taxpayer-funded online preschool program that is unlike any other.
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From PC Magazine: Online Education: The Year Ahead
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EdCircuit Staff
0 minutes readOnline education will grow up by scaling down. In spite of the practical and theoretical possibilities of e-learning, the very qualities that have enabled massive open online courses (or MOOCs) to serve prodigious numbers of learners—machine-graded assessment, prescriptive course design, and self-paced enrollment—have also tend to promote antiquated pedagogy, curtail student engagement, and preclude a …
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Hechinger Report: Can Real Global Learning Happen Online?
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EdCircuit Staff
0 minutes readThis fall, after getting to know each other in online video exchanges, some Ugandan high school students told a group of students in New Orleans that most Ugandans have no reliable electricity and use candles or lanterns after dark. Over the following weeks, the students worked together to build solar-powered lights. An education technology startup …
