More off-campus broadband access. New ways of engaging with families. Growing concerns over digital equity and the silos that exist within school systems. These are some of the trends that emerged in a recent survey of district technology leaders.

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.

A new study by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education found that students currently in second and third grade are now approximately 30% behind what would be expected in a typical year in reading fluency.

After making a major shift to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic, some teachers had to adjust to another unfamiliar environment when their school buildings reopened: teaching students online and in-person at the same time. Engaging, monitoring and supporting two sets of students with very different needs is a complex juggling act that…

Educators were forced to think big when schools were thrust into crisis, and not just about how to use technology.  

Under 2020 har människors beteenden förändrats på grund av Covid-19. I ett nytt forskningsprojekt kallat Utopian Stories ska elever hjälpa forskare att undersöka vad vi låtit bli att göra på grund av pandemin, och vad vi kan tänkas fortsätta att avstå från framöver för att bidra till ett bättre klimat. Elever runt om i Sverige…

En landsomfattende undersøkelse av vold, overgrep og psykisk helse blant ungdom i Norge våren 2020. (pdf)

This report is an analysis of multiple data sources collected over several months of engagement with educators, parents, and other educational stakeholders. It maps the main challenges, opportunities, support systems, and uses of educational technologies in the English education system since Spring 2020. (pdf)

This report presents the ways in which educational technology can best be used to support teaching and learning for school-aged pupils, particularly when traditional education is disrupted. The work we report here is unique in its synthesis of the multiple voices that contribute to the education ecosystem. It is pragmatic and future facing, with an…

As educators approach the one-year mark in pandemic-related school changes, many are experiencing high levels of traumatic stress, assert Christy Tirrell-Corbin, Center for Early Childhood Education and Intervention at the University of Maryland, and Carlomagno Panlilio, Department of Educational Psychology at Penn State University. In this commentary, they suggest short-term solutions, such as focusing on…

Utmaningen med distansundervisning under pandemin har varit att ha en bra och spontan kommunikation mellan lärare och elev. Samtidigt är förhoppningen att undervisning på distans ska bereda vägen för ett bättre regelverk för fjärrundervisning. Det menar forskaren Anna Åkerfeldt, didaktikforskare vid Stockholms universitet och process- och projektledare Ifous.

Megan Bowen, director of Penn Foster High School, says educators there have discovered keys to making remote learning work. In this commentary, Bowen suggests tailoring instruction to individual students, adopting formative practices, relying on data, building community and performing outreach.