Jay Doubleyou: digital learning solutions

The first thing you need for digital learning is ... a computer!

Which is probably better than a smartphone or tablet:

Desktop, Laptop,Tablet or Smartphone?: Canvas Student Resources

Laptops vs tablets: which is better for your student?

There's been a lot of digital learning happening these last months:

How countries are using edtech (including online learning, radio, television, texting) to support access to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

But much of this virtual learning has not just been a list of videos to watch or websites to look up - but also having your teacher on-line too - which we can call 'blended learning':

Jay Doubleyou: blended learning and the flipped classroom

And there's a lot of interest in it in these times:

Blended learning holds the key | Deccan Herald

How is Blended Learning Helping in COVID Times?

DOE Unveils Details Of Blended Learning For NYC Schools - Gothamist

UK students ‘would feel safer’ if blended learning continues | Times Higher Education (THE)

The industry is getting quite excited, with a lot of jargon:

Upstream raw materials and equipment and downstream demand

Corporate Blended Learning Market 2020 Industry Share Growing Rapidly with Recent Trends, Share, Growth, Development, Revenue, Demand and Forecast to 2026 Says MarketReportsWorld.com - MarketWatch

Classroom units and online phases are coordinated with regard to teaching methods, contents, and timing and meshed to result in a meaningful, productive combination of all components. This provides students with a consistent and coherent learning experience.

BL_Kriterien_EN.pdf

Whatever the professional babble says - it means that, because the world changing so fast, there will have to be a lot of flexibility and building up of media+digital competences:

8 Job Skills To Succeed In A Post-Coronavirus World

There will be different combinations of face-face, followed by Zoom/Skype, followed by some on-line activities - with the student doing things in their own time and collaborating with others by sharing via social media and other platforms:

Online collaboration - Remote learning - LibGuides at University of Hull

25 useful online tools for workshops and meetings. All free! | SessionLab

There will be the small things, such as 'learning nuggets':

Learning nugget - Wikipedia

Learning nuggets to promote digital learning | EPALE

There will be larger platforms:

Jay Doubleyou: e-learning platforms

And there will be the 'massive open on-line courses' or mooc
Massive open online course - Wikipedia

MOOC List | Find Free Online Courses and MOOCs from the Best Providers

And in the middle of all of this we need to follow the rules for collaboration, otherwise known as nettiquette
15 Essential Netiquette Guidelines to Share with Your Students | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Finally, do students have the discipline and ability to do it for themselves?

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