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2019 U19 EURO team of the tournament

Winners Spain provide six of the Under-19 EURO team of the tournament from Armenia.




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Faculty support each other through remote learning challenges and triumphs

Penn State Harrisburg faculty share their experiences – the challenges, triumphs and innovations – as they are adapting lesson plans and teaching processes during this time of social distancing.




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Future Teachers Are Unfamiliar With Basic 'Learning Science,' Report Finds

"There's a science of learning, and ... there's not a single teacher who couldn't benefit, I think, from knowing these principles," said the executive director of Deans for Impact, a group of education school leaders.




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Governors Urged to Push Pay Strategies

New ways of paying teachers launched by districts such as Denver and Houston are alone unlikely to produce the sweeping change that is needed on the compensation front, a report from the National Governors Association says.




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Pernille Harder wins UEFA Women's Player of the Year award

Pernille Harder of Wolfsburg and Denmark has been voted the 2017/18 UEFA Women's Player of the Year.




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Busting the Zip Code Curse with Blended Learning

Online learning holds great potential to transform rural education by ensuring that every student has access to great instruction.




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Response: Blended Learning Is 'the Next Generation of Education'

Angel Cintron Jr., Connie Parham, Catlin Tucker, Sheri Edwards, Cheryl Costello, William J. Tolley and George Station explore what blended learning is and how it can be made most effective.




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7 Ways to Break Bad Blended Learning

What separates transformative teachers, schools, and districts from those stuck in the routines of the past? The country's best blended teachers have uncovered these commonalities.




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Key to Blended Learning: Data-Informed Small Groups

A recent school tour of three Bay Area schools with some blended learning experts helped provide answers to some of the common questions we hear about how to implement blended learning.




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Creating Successful Blended-Learning Classrooms

History teacher Bill Tolley offers tips on adapting to learning environments that combine face-to-face instruction with self-directed online experiences.




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Ready to Implement Blended Learning?

Districts across the country are starting to see the blended learning light. We're encouraged by the growing number of forward-thinking leaders who are past the point of needing to be convinced about the potential of blended learning; and are now ready to get serious about implementation.




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Parents' Support for Blended Learning Slips, Poll Finds

A survey found that while fewer parents think students should spend considerable time in front of screens in schools, teacher support was unchanged.




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Bringing Blended Learning Forward

We introduce the power and resources released by change. We walk our teachers to the edge of a new world for teaching and learning, step off together and lead while we learn beside our teachers.




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Blended Learning, But The Data Are Useless

The first in a three post series on challenges and opportunities with blended learning, starting with getting to actionable data.




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The Role of Humans in Blended Learning

Mica Pollack and her colleagues from UCSD share new research about the importance of teachers in blended learning environments that highlights the strengths and limits of online tools.




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Blended Learning Is for Teachers, Too

Innovative professional development initiatives infuse technology with in-person learning to enhance learning experiences for teachers.




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Discussing Blended Learning and Remote Learning

We talk a lot about blended learning opportunities in my district, asking ourselves whether we are offering the most beneficial learning opportunities for both staff and students. We're looking to provide quality online learning resources to students when they are outside of our classrooms, as well




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What is Blended Learning?

The new "question-of-the-week" is:




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Blended Learning

Computer programs may help predict students' grades in school as well as determine successful pathways for completing assignments, finds a new Stanford University study.




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Blended Learning

Using online editing sessions does not affect student scores on standardized writing and reading exams, according to a forthcoming study.





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Is Blended Learning at a Tipping Point?

Even great innovations can fail. Will blended learning be one of them? These five factors may help us determine if the new educational model has reached a tipping point.




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5 Major Benefits of Blended Learning

Modern classrooms are slowly taking a new approach to imparting wisdom and knowledge to the upcoming generation. Traditional classroom teaching techniques are giving way to a new system of blended learning.




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Blended Learning (Re)Defined

Technology-enhanced instruction can make learning personalized, student-centered, and available anytime, anywhere.




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Instructions released for Alternative Grade Calculator and Request Tool

Instructions for using the new Alternative Grade Calculator and Request Tool in LionPATH are now available for undergraduates and students enrolled in the Graduate School.




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Books: What we can learn from the literature of imprisonment

The exercise yard lies just below my window. Every day I pace around it 12 times before returning to solitary confinement. The King George V park in Bearsden, of course, does not resemble the interior of any jail and the restrictions on my liberty are minor in comparison to those who have been imprisoned down the ages.




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Six students earn recognition as Bellisario College student marshals

Six accomplished seniors will celebrate the culmination of their collegiate involvement and success by representing the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications as student marshals for the Class of 2020.




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Bellisario College seeks engagement to bolster internship opportunities

Bellisario College internship office seeks to bolster its offerings with feedback from alumni and friends, as well as some creative approaches.




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Two student journalists among placewinners in Keystone Media Awards

Entries from two Penn State students were among winners in categories for professional television journalists as part of the Keystone Media Awards.




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Warming Midwest conditions may result in corn, soybean production moving north

If warming continues unabated in the Midwest, in 50 years we can expect the best conditions for corn and soybean production to have shifted from Iowa and Illinois to Minnesota and the Dakotas, according to Penn State researchers.




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Challenge met: Geography department transitions to remote teaching and learning

Within days of the University's shift to remote learning, faculty, instructors and teaching assistants in the Department of Geography moved 35 resident instruction courses into remote delivery mode to teach 1,947 students.




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Materials science graduate student earns award for outreach efforts

Tom Nigl, doctoral candidate in materials science and engineering (MatSE), was awarded the Intercollege Graduate Student Outreach Achievement Award from the Graduate School for outreach efforts that promote science within society.




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To Save the Internet, We Have to Break It

It might sound counterintuitive, but making services harder to use might be the key to making the internet safer and more private.




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US Attorney General William Barr Has Encryption All Wrong

Attorney General William Barr has a completely wrong-headed take on encryption, and he's not the only one. Adding backdoors to secure services is a terrible idea, despite its popularity with law enforcement.




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Barnes & Noble Nook GlowLight Plus (2019)

Barnes & Noble's Nook GlowLight Plus ebook reader has great hardware for the price, but its software and services are limited and buggy.




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House Democrats ask 5 companies to return coronavirus aid

House Democrats are demanding that companies return federal dollars that they say were intended for smaller businesses




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Roy Horn of 'Siegfried and Roy' fame dies from COVID-19 complications

Roy Horn was 75.




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Blast of arctic air grips eastern half of US, record lows possible

Snow and record cold are in the forecast for New York City and the Northeast Saturday.




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Schuylkill Speaks: Senior Dominique Varra discovers enthusiasm for ornithology

When she began the biology program at Penn State Schuylkill, senior Dominique Varra thought she wanted to study plants. But after conducting field research studying gray catbirds with Luke Redmond, assistant professor of biology, she has discovered a passion for ornithology. And all of her accomplishments have inspired the next generation of scientists, chiefly her five-year-old daughter Hayden, who hopes to follow in her mother’s footsteps.




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Teachers Should Design Student Assessments. But First They Need to Learn How

"When the day came to administer the first test I had designed," writes Brandon Lewis, "my heart sank."




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Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia earns 2020 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and clinical professor of law at Penn State Law at University Park, is the recipient of the 2020 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award.




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COVID-19 online roundtable to examine disease’s impact on international affairs

The Coronavirus and International Affairs Roundtable, taking place 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, via Zoom, will bring together experts in law and international affairs from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and the Caribbean to discuss the broader impact of COVID-19.




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From Puerto Rico to Penn State: A journey to becoming a student marshal

Daniela Claudio Pagán, a graphic design senior from Puerto Rico, has been named the College of Arts and Architecture's 2020 student marshal.




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Regional science tournament canceled

The 2020 Northeastern Pennsylvania Science Olympiad, scheduled for March 11 at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, was canceled and will not be rescheduled.




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Wilkes-Barre senior to receive Outstanding Adult Learner award

Dylan Fredricey, a senior majoring in rehabilitation and human services, has been chosen as the recipient of the Outstanding Adult Learner of the Year award for Penn State Wilkes-Barre.




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Campuses transform learning through immersive technology

Penn State faculty are going beyond using traditional video in their courses by incorporating virtual-reality immersive experiences. They are discovering how those experiences help enhance active learning and focus students' attention on critical lessons in their courses.




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Debra Roach honored with 2020 Hendrick Award for service to adult learners

Debra Roach, director of workforce development and continuing education at Penn State Beaver, has been honored with the 2020 Shirley Hendrick Award, presented by the Penn State Commission for Adult Learners for service to adult learners.




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How to Check Your Internet Speed

Don't take your ISP's word for it, put your connection to the test. The easiest way is to use Ookla Speedtest, but options abound. Here's how to see if you're getting what you pay for.




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This Little Chip and Big Box Will Change Your Home Internet

Qualcomm's new home Internet box will grab 5G from towers a mile from your house.




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SpaceX's Satellite Internet Plans for Mid-2020 Launch in the US

The company's goal is to launch six to eight additional batches of satellites over the next months so that the broadband service has sufficient coverage for the US market.