The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio recently ruled that virtual “room scans” used for test proctoring have the potential to violate students’ constitutional rights to privacy ...

Sonny Bavaro teaches via Zoom from the living room of his Kensington rowhouse. (Emma Lee/WHYY) As soon as students logged on for the first day of virtual school, Reading School District teacher Kyle ...

Ayla Kickhofel is a student in Maryland. She is a contributor to EdTech: Focus on K–12, sharing her experience with educational technology. Editor’s Note: In this Virtual Learning Diary, high school ...

It became a routine as familiar as going to lunch or picking up a child after school. Each day started with students logging online and listening as a teacher taught through a screen instead of at the ...

One of the important lessons of the pandemic is that virtual learning is here to stay, but it has a lot of room for improvement. And teachers, principals, and district leaders should be thinking hard ...

Similar to attending a physical campus and learning in person, there are advantages and disadvantages of attending a virtual classroom and learning online. Among the many benefits of online learning, ...

What is a virtual classroom? Classrooms are essentially a system of communication, which help facilitate a dialogue between teachers and students. Traditional classrooms and virtual classrooms achieve ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

It’s easy to imagine that many of today’s 2nd graders—future accountants, computer programmers, lawyers—will rarely see the inside of a traditional office. The pandemic is likely to accelerate a trend ...

When governments issued lockdown orders earlier this year, organizations everywhere scrambled to move their learning programs online. Since then, a team at the NeuroLeadership Institute has conducted ...

Virtual school enrollment in Wisconsin remains high, up 55% from pre-pandemic levels. Students choose online learning for flexibility to accommodate unique circumstances like competitive sports or ...