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Teaching Practices
How can teachers support students to develop their ability to use generative AI effectively and responsibly in their learning?
This problem of practice provides teachers with guidance on how to support students to develop their ability to use generative AI effectively and responsibly in their learning.
Strategies
Working with Industry Partners to Design Real-World, AI-Enhanced Projects
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT help students engage deeply in authentic problem-solving challenges by supporting research, ideation, and content creation. This strategy explores how students can use AI to empathize with real-world partners,...
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Leveraging AI to Transform Teaching and Learning
Artifacts
Professional Development for Virtual Schooling and Online Learning
This report, created by the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) research committee, aims to raise awareness of misconceptions and provide guidance on professional development for traditional and online schools. School leaders have...
Artifacts
Open Educational Resources (OER) Stories, Policies, and Resources
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is working to advance the understanding, adoption and implementation of open educational resources (OER) practices at state and district levels. This research represents the second phase of a 2014...
Artifacts
Deepening Student Learning in Three Kentucky Communities
The Aurora Institute toured three Kentucky sites in 2025 to elevate lessons from past work and to assess progress to date and goals for the future. Using document review, on-the-ground interviews, observation, and existing expertise in deeper...
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Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning, 12th Edition
This is the 12th annual Keeping Pace report. The digital learning world continues to change significantly each year, but the continued support from sponsors, educators, education agencies, state virtual schools, vendors and others has not faltered....
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Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education
The purpose of this report is to explore how to redesign grading systems to best help students gain the skills necessary to be successful. This report explains the weaknesses of traditional grading systems, and how to redesign grading along the 6...
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Using Online Learning for Credit Recovery: Getting Back on Track to Graduation
This research paper illustrates how schools and programs are using online learning to provide credit recovery for students with a wide spectrum of academic needs. The report investigates credit recovery and its impact on today’s students, state and...
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Student-Centered Learning: Functional Requirements for Integrated Systems to Optimize Learning
Learn more about this research in our archived webinar on this report. This paper illustrates the technical requirements and functionalities that learning management systems need to shift toward student-centered instructional models. This...
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Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems
Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems, uses logic model frameworks to convey relationships between essential levers (outcomes, drivers and mediating factors) that inform...
