By Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith and Sophie Yates (theconversation.com) Only 22% of family members and carers of students with a disability agreed they had received adequate educational support during the pandemic. Many respondents in our new research, and survey, on behalf of Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) reported being forgotten in the shift to remote learning, or…
By Benedict Carey (The New York Times) As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn’t. Nate Zim, a junior at Lab High School in Manhattan, with his mother, Corey Zim, at home in March as he logged onto his first virtual classroom, a Spanish class.Credit…Benjamin Norman for The New York Times Over…
By, Fun Man Fung, Ng Tao Tao Magdeline, Robert K Kamei (Excerpt from theconversation.com) Research has shown students learn better when they are actively engaged in the learning process, rather than just passively listening to a lecture. However, the coronavirus pandemic has forced what many thought would never happen: online courses extensively replacing traditional programs. Over the past three years, our faculty team and teaching assistants at…
The rush of colleges and universities to complete the current academic year online in response to the COVID-19 crisis, and possibly prepare hastily for the same delivery mode this coming fall, could well result in unprecedented turbulence for faculty, students and families. The unavoidable haste of implementation presents a highly uneven and potentially unsatisfying educational experience — threatening to further…