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The sudden need for distance learning imposed upon schools worldwide by the COVID-19 pandemic has created a huge market for online learning applications. Some have been around for decades while others seemed to have popped up overnight.

For the first time in its 38-year history, the GSE’s Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) will be exclusively online this summer, offering nearly all of its rigorous academic in-person courses as it has in previous years.

Have you noticed conflict around - and perhaps within - you these recent months? Maybe of the familiar global and national varieties, nightmarishly intensified? Or maybe you’ve been playing referee among a houseful of stir crazy youth, worrying and wondering about what kind of world they’ll inherit. Maybe, like me, you’ve found yourself navigating online social- and professional circles in which there’s a disorienting blend of shell shock, anxiety, disagreement, sorrow...gratitude, concern, love, hopefulness.

UC Berkeley hosted three leading Berkeley psychologists who discussed effective approaches and strategies for dealing with the anxiety, stress and uncertainty that are inherent parts of the COVID-19 crisis, for children and adults alike.

The original broadcast was live on Friday, April 17, Noon-12:30p Pacific. 

K-12 science teachers worldwide who find themselves suddenly giving lessons online are turning to the Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE), a free, open-source, standards-based inquiry science curricula that also provides peer-to-peer support and professional development.

The rush to push in-class learning into an online experience may be leaving out one crucial piece to helping students succeed – incentivising participation.

Many colleges and universities are facing the policy question of whether to make attendance of synchronous online sessions optional.

The university has announced steps designed to help limit coronavirus (COVID-19) risk on campus. The changes will remain in place through the end of the semester.

Updates from campus leaders offer details, which include temporarily suspending in-person instruction; and a cancellation of all on-campus events.

The campus has also set up an informational website

With growing research showing that performance on the SAT and ACT are impacted by ethnicity and socio-economics, Chancellor Carol T. Christ and other UC leaders say they are ready to end the use of such standardized tests in the college admissions process.