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What College Professors Should Know About Learning Science

Edsurge

EdSurge: When MOOCs started a few years ago, researchers were excited to learn from the data generated from all of these online learners. At MIT you have taken MOOCs and free materials that were generated for the masses and used them in courses. In 2002 MIT put our courses up on OpenCourseWare. What are the more popular topics?

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As College Innovation Efforts Grow, So Do Warnings of a ‘McDonaldization’ of Higher Ed

Edsurge

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. In 2013, Amherst considered experimenting with massive open online courses (also known as MOOCs) by forming a partnership with a nonprofit called edX.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. And, perhaps most importantly, when is the right time to invest? OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid’s 2002 instant-classic The Social Life of Information is a wonderful book that expertly addresses this well-debunked-but-still-prevalent idea.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid’s 2002 instant-classic The Social Life of Information is a wonderful book that expertly addresses this well-debunked-but-still-prevalent idea.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

.” “Mastery learning is used in order to advance an individual’s potential for learning. Compared to traditional learning models, sufficient time, attention, and help are afforded to each student.” ” (11). An acronym for Massively Open Online Course, a digital course that allows asynchronous access to content.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.