Online Learning

Though online learning hit some speedbumps during COVID, educators know it has vast transformative potential beyond a stop-gap response to a historic crisis. 

The COVID-driven shift online, and subsequent learning losses in math, exposed some of the critical flaws in how the subject has traditionally been taught, researchers say. 

IEP and 504 Plan Implementation Strategies for Compliance and Student Success outlines the major pitfalls that lead to costly implementation failures and the concrete steps districts and individual educators can take minimize such mistakes.

Keeping track of all the laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots distributed urgently to students was yet another of COVID's myriad challenges. How big a challenge that continues to be depends on a range of factors.

With online and hybrid learning set to outlast COVID, students (and teachers) will look for simplified user experiences to navigate digital learning tools.

Schools and libraries can use the funding to buy laptops and tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots, modems, and routers, and also provide broadband connectivity.