A blended education program combines online and classroom learning in a brick-and-mortar setting in order to improve the quality of instruction and provide more engaging student-to-student and student-to-teacher interactions. The blended model reduces tuition costs while boosting student performance levels. This business plan proposes a blended model for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) using the Khan Academy’s online learning platform, and specifically targeting elementary school students at the 4th grade level and above.

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This non-experimental, quantitative study was completed to determine if Tennessee high school students who take an online, asynchronous course better their digital literacy through the environment of online learning. The study focused on the pretest and posttest scores of Niswonger Online students during the spring and summer semesters of 2021. It grouped the high school students by location, high school size, grade level, and courses taken to assess differences in digital literacy. Finally, it evaluated overall student growth in digital literacy scores after completion of an online high school course. Data from a pretest and posttest of Niswonger Online students were used to assess growth in digital literacy scores after completing an online course. There were six Research Questions that guided this study with six significant findings: 1. Students who were excited about taking the online course had significantly higher levels of digital literacy on the pretest. 2. Students from small high schools (fewer than 1200) scored significantly lower on the pretest than students from larger high schools. 3. Students from rural high schools scored significantly lower on the pretest than students from urban or suburban high schools. 4. There was a significant difference in the means (lower) of Sophomore pretest scores in comparison to other grade levels. 5. There was a significant difference between the average growth scores of students in World Languages and Social Studies and World Languages and Career and Technical courses. 6. On average, students who completed the Niswonger Online course scored significantly higher on the posttest than on the pretest.

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La crisis sanitaria causada por la pandemia covid-19 en el mundo hizo que muchas escuelas se vieran forzadas a impartir clases virtuales o semipresenciales, muchas sin tener la preparación ni los recursos necesarios para llevar a cabo semejante tarea. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo estudiar las percepciones del alumnado y el profesorado de la asignatura de español como lengua extranjera de una escuela secundaria sueca con respecto a la experiencia de enseñanza virtual de los últimos dos años. El artículo aborda tres problemáticas: la preferencia de modalidad de enseñanza, las ventajas y desventajas de la modalidad virtual, y las tecnologías de la comunicación y la información que se pueden mantener en la enseñanza presencial. La metodología utilizada para recabar información de primera mano son dos encuestas: una con preguntas abiertas para profesores, y otra de preferencia y opinión siguiendo la escala de Likert para el alumnado. A su vez se usará el modelo de Fisher de dos colas para establecer correlaciones estadísticas que puedan probar las hipótesis. El marco teórico del trabajo es la teoría de la conectividad de Siemens y Downes, el concepto de competencia digital y el enfoque de “aula invertida” de Bergmann y Sams. / The sanitary crisis caused by the worldwide covid-19 pandemic forced many schools to impart blended and online teaching, despite the fact that many lacked the preparation or the necessary resources to carry out this task. This paper aims at studying the perceptions of Spanish as a Foreign Language secondary school students and teachers with respect to the distance education experience of the last two years. The article addresses three issues: the preference for a certain teaching modality, the risks and disadvantages of online teaching, and the digital tools and strategies that can be used in face-to-face teaching. The method used to obtain first-hand information are surveys: the teachers’ survey had open questions, and the students’ survey, Likert’s preference and opinion scales. In addition, Fisher’s exact test will be used to establish if there are statistically significant correlations between variables to prove the study’s hypotheses. The theoretical framework is Siemens’ and Downes’ theory of connectivity, the concept of digital competence and that of “flipped classroom” by Bergmann and Sams.

This mixed methods study compared distance and blended undergraduate environmental students at Royal Roads University (RRU) as they participated in online asynchronous PBL case discussion forums as part of an Ecotoxicology course. This study examined the differences between distance and blended teams in their activity, approaches, and levels of critical thinking in an online PBL activity. Critical thinking was evaluated using the cognitive presence indicators of the community of inquiry framework developed by Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2001). An organization indicator was added to the framework to capture posts that organized the discussion forum layout or the team and the distribution of work. The use of the organization indicator in the thread map analysis revealed that teams adopted one of two approaches to the online PBL activity, either an organic approach or an organizational scaffold approach. An open coding approach to content analysis of the posts was used to develop two coding schemes to capture the use of learning scaffolds and degree of online collaboration respectively. These coding schemes were used to compare scaffolding and collaboration behaviours of distance and blended students during the online PBL activity. The study found that whether teams used the online discussion forums or face-to-face discussion as their primary communication method influenced both the timing and the critical thinking content of the online discussion forums. Student moderators’ choices influenced the structure and approach to the PBL activity, as well as the form of document assembly that was observed in the online discussion forums. The learning scaffolds coding scheme demonstrated that both distance and blended students were reading beyond the assigned reading list. Both distance and blended students appeared to develop skills in identifying information gaps over the progression of the PBL case problems as their observable level of critical thinking remained consistent as the problem scaffolding was faded. Although both environmental and non-environmental work experience may be used to scaffold team learning, they are used differently. Online PBL is a good fit for the Royal Roads University Learning and Teaching Model and may be used to provide some consistency across blended and online course content. / Graduate