Virtual Learning, Now and Beyond

January 31, 2022

The pandemic-fueled expansion of online learning will certainly persist beyond the pandemic, and schools must ensure that the transition creates accessible, high-quality options for all students. Most recently, the surge in COVID-19 Omicron variant cases and persistent ambiguity around whether and how to close schools reinforces the fact that we have failed to build intentional on-ramps to virtual education. State and local leaders can employ evidence from past online learning efforts, emerging best practices, and data from the pandemic to understand how to build a path forward that capitalizes on the potential of online learning, while avoiding the pitfalls.

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OTHER WHITEPAPERS

The Pandemic College Student Experience: Implications for Student Success and Retention

whitePaper | June 23, 2022

The way students are now taking courses has changed from before the pandemic for most who responded. Before the pandemic, more than half of respondents took courses fully in person, while only fewer than one in five students took courses fully online. Currently, only 3 percent of respondents report having courses fully in-person, whereas nearly two-thirds state that they are taking classes fully online. One third are taking a mix of online and in-person courses currently

The six golden rules to training finance employees

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

You could have the world’s best instructors, access to bleeding-edge technology and course materials that would grace Harvard—but if you’re taking the wrong approach to training employees then it will still end in failure.

THE ENTERPRISE-WIDE CASE FOR ELEARNING

whitePaper | January 27, 2022

With digital transformation happening at lightning-fast speed, data exploding like never before, new products being released every day, new markets mushrooming, and new customers being acquired with the blink of an eye, the business landscape is constantly evolving.

3 Key Steps to Choosing Interventions that Meet ESSA Standards

whitePaper | August 13, 2020

Determining whether a product has the right kind of research to prove effectiveness is often a confusing process. ESSA now requires school districts to purchase intervention programs that have sufficient evidence to demonstrate that they improve student outcomes. Choosing a program with research-based effectiveness increases the likelihood that it will improve student achievement. Understanding ESSA’s tiers of evidence standards and knowing what to look for will help districts make informed choices about an intervention program’s potential effectiveness.

Education for the future

whitePaper | November 11, 2022

The roundtable meeting and white paper have been produced under Chatham House Rule, meaning that information, views

High Touch to High Tech: Computational Thinking in 3-D Science

whitePaper | February 3, 2023

Grade 4 students examine energy by using models of electrical systems to analyze patterns that demonstrate that energy moves and changes. And in a middle school science class, students make a model to simulate an earthquake, gather data on its effects on land and human-built structures, and then analyze the data to inform the design of earthquake-resistant buildings.

Education Technology, Online Education

Virtual Learning, Now and Beyond