Sentences with phrase «for online learning environments»

Staffing responsibilities and hiring expectations for online learning environments vary greatly from that of traditional classroom environments.

This decision journey can be replicated and adapted for the online learning environment and for learners who are about to enter this learning cycle.

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With In2Books, for example, ePals helps students in grades 3 to 5 to improve their reading skills with the support of adult mentors in a safe, online learning environment.

Join us below at 1:30 PM Eastern today (Thursday, June 21) to learn more during a live 30 - minute online chat at Scientific American with David Biello, an energy and environment editor at SA for more than six years.

Unlike large exhibit - style tradeshows, The Phoenix Forum is a mid-sized gathering, offering attendees a more relaxed, in - person networking environment for unsurpassed opportunities to meet, learn and share ideas with their Adult online business peers.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

In addition to hosting and delivering courses in a CE compliant environment, Freestone also delivers webinars and webcasts through one central platform, making it a one stop shop for all online learning needs.

Schoology also has an easy - to - use online forum for each class where students can post questions to their peers and get answers, creating a peer - to - peer learning environment.

Whether you do all your studying from home as an online student or you just need some tips to make the most of your time outside the classroom, here are five of the best ways to optimize your learning environment for better results.

There is a place for online learning for elementary grades and is typically used with students in the home learning environment where the parents are actively involved in the daily instructional program.

In addition to promoting digital resilience, it is also important to manage online risks, in order to create safe learning environments for students.

Factors to consider include: School office functions; video conferencing; staff email; pupil email, staff internet usage while teaching, which can include using online applications such as YouTube and iPlayer; the school's online portal or website; if the school utilises a virtual learning environment (VLE); individual pupil internet use, such as research and downloads for projects and classwork; and the use of any laptops or handheld devices that may put further stress on the connection.

In this article I will discuss three ways to engage your students in an online learning environment with specific examples for those teaching in the sciences.

In this article, I'll discuss the benefits and basics of online testing in the workplace, including tips for how you can use this assessment strategy in corporate learning environments.

Perhaps the most important and significant characteristic of online learning is the fact that it provides successful training and knowledge accumulation in a very safe environment — a very significant necessity for the Pharmaceutical Industry, considering the usage of a large number of basic chemicals - particularly organic chemicals in the production of bulk drugs and drug intermediates in this Industry.

Online Learning Environments are becoming increasingly available for learners in all areas of education from primary grades right through to higher education.

The availability of those and other online tools, as well as the growing technical sophistication of teachers, provides the potential for a new type of learning environment, in which the global network serves as a work space for students — not merely a fancy encyclopedia.

If you are facilitating an online learning environment, here are nine suggestions for successfully managing your group.

There is still very little empirically validated evidence available for K - 12 online - learning environments outside of individual case studies.

That's the thinking behind proposals that some states are considering to pay for competency - based learning — programs that allow students to master academic content unconstrained by time, place or pace, often in online or digital environments.

Now my mission is to create an online learning environment that helps advanced placement literature students while they take their course and prepares them for their grueling national exam each May.

With a learning platform that reflects your corporate identity, you can create the perfect online environment for your people.

This, Attivo says, allows him to gauge students» abilities and motivations for online learning, and determine whether they have the independence and other skills to succeed in a less - structured environment.

So don't wait for them to find out the hard way that teacher - student email is often delayed in an online learning environment.

Second, it is investing in instructional approaches that increase student and parental engagement — such as differentiated school offerings for different student needs, as well as products and services for blended - learning environments, where the bulk of K — 12 online learning will ultimately be — both for its own full - time managed schools as well as for districts through its Fuel Education business.

Virtual classrooms and online learning platforms offer a safe space outside of the mainstream environment to access the curriculum at the student's own time and pace, for example lesson times can be adjusted so the child can attend when they feel the most energised and able to learn.

For other students an asynchronous online only learning environment provides more time student reflection and self - paced learning.

In one study, researchers presented a web - based framework for the implementation of learning environments, which promoted online learning using a variety of web - based devices.

For the first, that's why our prediction states that online learning will occur in different forms and fashions, and the bulk of it — at least 90 percent — will be in blended - learning environments.

Online environments such as Whyville and Second Life present great opportunities for dynamic learning, but certain aspects require special attention.

Some current projects include: Cultures of Computing, an examination of how K - 12 teachers design learning environments to support novice programmers, focusing on teachers» design intentions and how those intentions are enacted; ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators who support computational literacy with the Scratch programming language, involving the development of a 25,000 - member online community, a network of in - person events, and curricular materials; and Cultivating Computational Thinking, an investigation of the concepts, practices, and perspectives that young people develop through computational design activities.

Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.

Online learning environments have been a game changer for Australian distance educators whose «classrooms» cover thousands of square kilometres, but it's more than just a case of being able to reach isolated areas.

The evolution of the teacher - controlled learning environment to include more self - directed online education has highlighted the need for students of all ages to develop self - regulated learning skills.

That said, one of the biggest ironies I noted was how much of the book's techniques may be, to varying degrees, irrelevant for the jobs of teachers in the future, as online learning continues to grow in blended - learning settings and remakes the learning environments in schools.

Other techniques that may fall into «less relevant» include such ones as «Stretch It,» which is designed to help «meet students where they are and push them in a way that's directly responsive to what they've shown they can already do,» and becomes more embedded in a blended - learning environment; «Wait Time,» which is designed to help all students have a moment to answer a question, but isn't relevant when each child is working at her own pace online; «Do Now» to help focus students on a particular learning activity when they enter the classroom; and several tips around varying pacing for the entire classroom, which become more irrelevant when each student has a unique pacing schedule.

Would you like to learn more about how to develop effective testing for your online training program in a corporate environment?

E-schools and their kin should facilitate understanding of how best to utilize online curricula and non-traditional learning environments, especially for underserved learners.

While accommodating the needs of people with disabilities in online learning environments, it also serves as a best practice for creating and developing learning opportunities that are accessible to everyone.

Collaboration With the growing presence of social media, new exhibitor Petra's Planet for Schools was on hand on stand B85 to showcase its cross-curricular, safe and controlled environment designed to motivate and engage students between five and 12 in an online learning environment, teaching important digital and social media skills.

For example, the report says, «Ohio recently enacted a provision requiring e-schools to offer an orientation course — a perfect occasion to set high expectations for students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to do schoolwork, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).&raqFor example, the report says, «Ohio recently enacted a provision requiring e-schools to offer an orientation course — a perfect occasion to set high expectations for students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to do schoolwork, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).&raqfor students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to do schoolwork, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).»

At the very least, states with fully online schools should adopt a policy like the one in Ohio, which requires such schools to offer an orientation course — the perfect occasion to set high expectations for students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to study, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).

eLearning designers look for ways to create welcoming online learning environments so that learners can experience that eLearning product or eLearning service, in a setting they enjoy spending time in, where they feel comfortable and possibly where their visionary functions are stimulated in an engaging and productive way.

Sept. 28, 2011: Gifted Students Click on E-Learning Our guests discuss how best to serve gifted students in an online learning environment, as well as what challenges may arise for this population of students.

Kaspersky Lab urges parents, teachers and the industry to work together to create a safe environment for children, so they can learn and thrive online, as opposed to being scared or worried to connect to the internet altogether.

For the Pharmaceutical Industry, online training has a competitive edge over any other form of learning - given the ever - changing environment of this Industry.

Online learning environments have been a game changer for Australian distance educators.

Already a leader in accessibility, this school wanted to do more for providing an accessible online learning environment.

In an online learning environment, where engagement, motivation and trust are the main barriers to success, UX design for eLearning should take precedence before many other dimensions of a course.

Using online learning in blended - learning environments will be critical for most Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to realize this priority.