The Do’s and Don’ts of Taking an Online Class!

 The Do’s and Don’ts of Taking an Online Class

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How is the education sector responding to COVID-19?

 In response to significant demand, many online learning platforms are offering free access to their services, including platforms like BYJU’S, a Bangalore-based educational technology and online tutoring firm founded in 2011, which is now the world’s most highly valued edtech company. Since announcing free live classes on its Think and Learn app, BYJU’s has seen a 200% increase in the number of new students using its product, according to Mrinal Mohit, the company's Chief Operating Officer.

Tencent classroom, meanwhile, has been used extensively since mid-February after the Chinese government instructed a quarter of a billion full-time students to resume their studies through online platforms. This resulted in the largest “online movement” in the history of education with approximately 730,000, or 81% of K-12 students, attending classes via the Tencent K-12 Online School in Wuhan.

Other companies are bolstering capabilities to provide a one-stop-shop for teachers and students. For example, Lark, a Singapore-based collaboration suite initially developed by ByteDance as an internal tool to meet its own exponential growth, began offering teachers and students unlimited video conferencing time, auto-translation capabilities, real-time co-editing of project work, and smart calendar scheduling, amongst other features. To do so quickly and in a time of crisis, Lark ramped up its global server infrastructure and engineering capabilities to ensure reliable connectivity.

LEARN MORE: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-online-digital-learning/

The rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020, April 29). Retrieved September 22, 2020, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-online-digital-learning/

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education forever. This is how...

 

• The COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut all across the world. Globally, over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom.
• As a result, education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms.
• Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay.

While countries are at different points in their COVID-19 infection rates, worldwide there are currently more than 1.2 billion children in 186 countries affected by school closures due to the pandemic. In Denmark, children up to the age of 11 are returning to nurseries and schools after initially closing on 12 March, but in South Korea students are responding to roll calls from their teachers online.

With this sudden shift away from the classroom in many parts of the globe, some are wondering whether the adoption of online learning will continue to persist post-pandemic, and how such a shift would impact the worldwide education market.

Even before COVID-19, there was already high growth and adoption in education technology, with global tech investments reaching US$18.66 billion in 2019 and the overall market for online education projected to reach $350 Billion by 2025. Whether it is language apps, virtual tutoring, video conferencing tools, or online learning software, there has been a significant surge in usage since COVID-19.

The rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020, April 29). Retrieved September 22, 2020, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-online-digital-learning/

What Students Are Really Thinking About Online Learning

 What Students Are Really Thinking About Online Learning

What has your online learning experience been as a student?  What did you like about it?  What didn't you like about it?  How does it compare with your experience as a student in a physical classroom? In the future, if you could choose, would you want to do more online learning?  If so, why?  If not, why not?..

Ferlazzo, L. (2020, May 13). What Students Are Really Thinking About Online Learning. Retrieved September 18, 2020, from https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2020/05/students_thoughts_about_online_learning.html

11 Low-Prep ESL Games for Teaching Online

 Who doesn’t love playing games? Whether you use them to practice ESL vocabulary or simply break the ice with your students, games always make English classes more fun and engaging. Check out the following 11 great ESL games for teaching online that you can play with your young students and teenagers –or even adults – that require minimal to no teacher preparation. (And for even more game ideas, enroll in one of our new, free Bridge Micro-credentials in Teaching English Online.

1. Find Something…
2. Hidden Objects
3. Objects Pictionary
4. Odd One Out
5. Tell Me 5
6. Word Chain
7. The Bragging Game
8. Classmate Speculation
9. The Sentence Maker
10. Tic-Tac-Toe 2.0
11. ESL Jeopardy

11 Low-Prep ESL Games for Teaching Online. (2020, October 21). Retrieved September 14, 2020, from https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/esl-games-teaching-online/

Seven tips for home studying during the coronavirus pandemic

During this unprecedented time, when people around the globe are finding themselves homebound for weeks at a time, things have to be done differently. You may be home by yourself, or quarantined along with your partner or entire family—either way, study will need an adjustment to allow you to fully focus. Before the pandemic, it was easy to escape to study at a coffee shop or library (or at least somewhere silent), but we’re now readjusting to a new normal in which home studying is the only option. Here are some tips on how to study effectively while stuck at home, whatever your situation might be.

 1. Carve out (and clean out) your study space 

 2. Communicate to others in your home that you will be studying 

 3. Tune out distractions 

 4. Focus 

 5. Reward yourself 

 6. Keep reading 

 7. Set realistic goals 

Economist GMAT Tutor. (2020, April 8). Seven tips for home studying during the coronavirus pandemic. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://gmat.economist.com/news-announcements/seven-tips-home-studying-during-coronavirus-pandemic

In these times...

NOW THAT WE ARE STARTING THIS SEMESTER ONLINE WE HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE TOOLS THAT CAN HELP US WORK IN THE RIGHT WAY. ALTHOUGH I THINK THAT IN THESE MOMENTS EVERYTHING IS GOING SINCE WE ARE LEARNING THE WAY TO TAKE CLASSES ONLINE.

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ONLINE LEARNING SHOULD RETURN TO A SUPPORTING ROLE

At the moment, teachers from kindergarten through graduate school are struggling to take their classes online, and the initial results are, understandably, spotty. But the longer this mass experiment continues, the more familiar remote learning will become. And, has been predicted for many years, online performances by superstars are increasingly likely to replace more pedestrian in-person lectures... You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/online-learning-virus.html Deming, D. (2020, April 9). Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role. Retrieved September 4, 2020, from