Distance & Online Education
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College and University Faculty Need Better Professional Development for Teaching Online
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been feeling intense pressure in recent years to fill US workforce and industry skills gaps, and to remedy systemic social inequities, develop responsible…
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Effective Ways of Evaluating Productivity Tools and Software for Education
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. Successful technology integration into education depends largely on whether or not teachers promote technology use in their classrooms (Ottenbreit-Leftwich & Kimmons, 2020). It has become fairly common for…
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Effective Technology Integration
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. When the U.S. Department of Education (DOE, 2017) released its National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) in 2010, educators and policymakers were given a common vision and plan of…
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Best Practices for Teaching Online
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. Online teaching is a very different process from face-to-face instruction. In determining which virtual or distance instructional practices are best, however, online teaching should be judged on the…
