Students return to the virtual classroom this week. January 4, 2021, 9:02 PM • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article As students head back to the classroom after the holidays, the FBI is warning students, teachers and parents that cyber criminals and bad actors are looking […]
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Yorktown man is making free desks for kids to use at home, during virtual learning
The desks are provided at no cost to families, so Mike Arndt needs the community’s help to keep the initiative going. YORKTOWN, Va. — With COVID cases on the rise across Hampton Roads, a lot of school districts are deciding to keep kids out of the classroom and stick with […]
Make up for learning lost in pandemic
The Gainesville Sun Editorial Board | The Gainesville Sun The damage caused by COVID-19 can be seen every day in rising numbers of deaths and hospitalizations, but some of the harm caused by the pandemic is more insidious. K-12 students had their schooling disrupted in the spring when classroom buildings […]
Biden VA pick faces ‘steep learning curve’ at massive agency
President-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenTrump calls Georgia Senate runoffs ‘both illegal and invalid’ in New Year’s tweets Judge dismisses Gohmert’s election suit against Pence Ex-GOP senator suggests forming new party, calls Trump ‘ringmaster’ of Republicans MORE’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to face a tough time […]
Online learning may mean end of school snow days
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a boy growing up in Kingsley, Adam Zellmer remembers winter school cancellations as carefree days filled with sledding, snowball fights and snow forts. Now, as superintendent of South Hardin Community Schools, Zellmer starts inclement winter mornings by driving the roads of Hardin County at […]
How to future-proof your business and career with online learning
As this long, tough year winds down, many of us are still working from home, taking client meetings via Zoom and perhaps—tentatively, optimistically—looking forward to a reset in 2021. And after eight-plus months of using our downtime to binge-watch TV or slowly chip away at home projects, many of us […]
What’s your learning plan for 2021? How to map out your goals and track your wins
Managers and employees can use an accomplishment tracker and an objective planning worksheet to chart a path for developing new skills. According to a new report from Deloitte, the next trend in upskilling and reskilling is to let employee interests and talents set the priorities instead of relying on a […]
IndustryMasters Partners with Warwick Business School to Earn Gold Award for Online Distance Learning Programme
Learning Technologies’ 2020 Gold Award for Best Online Distance Learning Programme was awarded to Warwick Business School (WBS) in the UK and IndustryMasters for the school’s Business in Practice Program – a two-week experience in which teams of students assume positions of an executive board within a complex business simulation. […]
With 15 years of experience, Utah Online School personalizes learning for each student
In 2020, online education became reality for students and parents across the state. While it was a new experience for many, that wasn’t the case at Utah Online School who has been leading the way in online education for over 15 years. With a course completion rate exceeding 90% and […]
Make learning a new language a lifetime hobby while saving 50% at Babbel
Babbel If one of your personal improvement goals during the pandemic has been to master a new language — perhaps so you can watch Dark on Netflix without subtitles — there’s never been a better time. And I don’t mean it’s a good time because it looks like staying at […]
Online Learning Platform Courses For Adults Hobbies Languages Tech Launched
Press release content from Marketers MEDIA. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. https://apnews.com/press-release/marketers-media/lifestyle-recreation-and-leisure-social-affairs-media-distance-learning-4c02891acabae48a6a5598b10e2623b4 Click to copy An online learning platform designed to bring people together with interactive classes has been launched. The team explain Your Teachable Moment enriches lives and builds communities online. A new learning […]
5 Best Online Learning Platforms to Start Selling Courses Today
Photo: Stock Photos from fizkes/ShutterstockThis post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please read our disclosure for more info. The way we learn has changed. Over the course of the last year, circumstances have driven more and more people […]
Online learning threats parents need to know about
Millions of American children are spending this fall semester taking at least some of their classes online, through Zoom, Google Meet and other platforms. And while many of the bugs, glitches and surprise Zoom “bombings” of this past spring have been fixed, experts say many threats remain. Arneesha Collins, parent […]
Opinion | Want to Reduce Cheating in Online Learning? Use Honor Codes
When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, every paper we turned in had to have the honor code written out and then signed. Now as a professor at Wake Forest, I make my class recite aloud with me before each exam our entire honor code and then sign it. Signing […]
Syracuse University switching to online learning starting Thursday
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Syracuse University is switching to all online learning starting on Thursday, Nov. 12. The university said this might make students accelerate their plans to leave campus. They plan to help students who choose to leave early so they can do so as safely as possible. This […]
SOCSD teachers: Pitfalls of online learning include student stress, varying parental involvement
The typical responsibilities of teaching took on new challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic, and teachers in the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District are still learning as they go, Adrienne Minor said. “It has been a learning curve, and it’s taken a lot of personal growth to recognize where I […]
Parents help shape online learning at Central Falls charter school
Linda Borg | The Providence Journal CENTRAL FALLS — While other school districts struggled to make remote learning work, The Learning Community has turned an educational crisis into an opportunity to deepen its communication with families and fix problems as they arise. From day one, the K-8 charter school has put […]
British golfers learning on the course rather than going to college
At that stage in the middle of the past decade, the growing belief was that the collegiate system would soon entice all the most notable British talent. That it has emphatically failed to work out that way could be another nod to McIlroy’s status as a pioneer. Of the 10 […]
Your Finances: 9 ways to make virtual learning easier for kids
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of schoolchildren still learning remotely as the weather turns colder, some might benefit from a few investments in their at-home experience. The following items, all under $15, can help make distance learning more appealing to even the youngest learners. 1. New background decorations When […]
9 Items To Improve Online Learning for Kids
By Kimberly Palmer Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with millions of schoolchildren still learning remotely as the weather turns colder, some might benefit from a few investments in their at-home experience. The following items, all under $15, can help make distance learning more appealing to even the youngest learners. 1. New […]