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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

Instructors should incorporate engagement techniques such as brief, live streamed online lectures using Google Hangouts , Zoom , Adobe Connect to name a few. If they learn how to engage the online learner, then hiding behind the safety of the student-initiated email wouldn’t be necessary. – Cavanaugh, Joseph K. Spring, 57-69. (R).

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Developing and Delivering Effective Professional Development for Educators

EdTechTeam

In this age of digital transformation, educators may choose from the plethora of online MOOCs which are a convenient and no-travel option. Most of these MOOCs are free and are led by top professors from reputed global universities. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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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. The quotation is from 2012. ” I don’t believe that more technology means that education gets “more better.”

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

Sea Monkeys, x-ray googles, and invisibility helmets, much like all education technology products, base a lot of of their marketing on assurances and performances of scientific amazement and technological progress. What are MOOCs, for example? Suddenly it’s not merely a matter of parlor tricks; it’s the presidency.

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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 MOOCs even. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.). Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes.

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Hope for the Future

Hack Education

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago, an interview with an Uber engineer who'd pleaded guilty to stealing Google's self-driving car technology. Tall tales about the invention of the MOOC. "The only thing that matters is the future," he told the magazine.

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