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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. We shall see. An example? Open Curriculum.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

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Or the flipped classroom. Or MOOCs even. Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes. Take iPads , for example. Fads fade, and then sometimes they re-emerge, sometimes they re-brand. “ Zombies ideas ,” as I’ve previously called them. No doubt, the most wishful of the ed-tech zombies this year was VR.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.)

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