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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

ED Surge

—Katharine Meyer As residential colleges grapple with decisions about whether and how to continue offering online and hybrid courses , they may benefit from taking a look at student-engagement practices commonly used by their online-only counterparts. We pretty much have 360-degree case management around each of our students.”

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When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

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Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. W]hen I think about UDL, that's the question I'm looking for: How am I going to engage all learners? percent to 22.5

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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 2)

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Around this time, learning scientists picked up on the educational potential of gaming and began running research studies, largely with National Science Foundation (NSF) dollars. MacArthur pulled from both the academic and commercial communities, and important research started to emerge from university consortia and non-profits.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

ED Surge

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Not an ideal conversation right after sessions on mindfulness, but the husband-and-wife researcher duo did take away two key lessons from the students’ candor. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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How Technology Is Powering Learning

Magic EdTech

Encourage reading, research, and exploration, and building in constructivism, where learners focus on self-learning. It is a regulated mechanism of data capturing, analyses, and custom tailoring of learning solutions, just as Learning Analytics is becoming increasingly crucial to evaluate student engagement, traction, and learning output.

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How Technology Is Powering Learning

Magic EdTech

Encourage reading, research, and exploration, and building in constructivism, where learners focus on self-learning. It is a regulated mechanism of data capturing, analyses, and custom tailoring of learning solutions, just as Learning Analytics is becoming increasingly crucial to evaluate student engagement, traction, and learning output.

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How to Start Class with Opening Questions

Cool Cat Teacher

Let's talk about some of your current research that's going to relate to student engagement, both face to face and online. I was working with a student synchronous course in higher education. It was a class called “EdTech and Design.” Where did you start with your questions? I love this idea of opening act.

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