After the widespread pandemic-era use of virtual learning, rampant speculation began that schools would abandon traditional snow days and replace them with online classes. For many districts, that’s ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Last weekend’s winter blast put many school districts out of operations this week for snow days. Since icy road conditions remained throughout the week, many schools turned to ...

When pandemic-related restrictions were lifted, most K-12 educators and students gladly returned to in-person learning. A 2022 analysis of the nation’s 100 largest districts suggested that most either ...

When COVID-19 spread globally in spring 2020, hundreds of millions of students across the world had no choice but to attend school remotely. The consensus now is that the outcomes were overwhelmingly ...

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 ...

Before the pandemic, Patricia Woodward’s son Zion struggled in school. He was a shy kid, someone who didn’t feel comfortable asking questions in front of the whole class. Even when he needed help, the ...

Created in fall 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic stopped in-person classes, Fayette County School’s Virtual Learning Academy is shutting down at the end of the 2021-2022 academic year. The ...

Most of Natasha Rubin’s fourth-graders write in journals and do their reading in a bright, book-stocked classroom with big windows and colorful student art on the walls. Hands shoot up during class ...

Immersive learning experiences are a new type of educational experience that can be used in place of traditional lectures and classrooms. Immersive learning is meant to mimic the real world by ...

Although we might still be a long way from dialing into the Matrix, virtual reality has evolved significantly since Heilig’s Sensorama in the 1960s, and it isn’t being used strictly for entertainment ...