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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Edsurge

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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10Q: Shelly Sanchez Terrell

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In 2004, I became an English language teacher and taught students from 2 to 80 years-old in the US, Germany, and Greece. The 30 Goals Challenge - Over 7000 educators worldwide have participated in accomplishing goals to transform their classrooms and impact their students. It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Like, how would you argue against “collaborative learning” as occurring – now or some day – in classrooms?

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Or the flipped classroom. Or MOOCs even. ” “Visit faraway lands without leaving the classroom.” Hype wanes.