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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. by Terry Heick. We shall see.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

And as you surely know, TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. TurnItIn was acquired by the media conglomerate Advance Publications last year for $1.75

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

For my notes on Day 1 of this academy, which took place January 15, 2014, click here. edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Use every bit of social media that you can.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. She is the author of two books, Understanding Gamification and Library Mobile Experience: Practices and User Expectations and the founding editor of ACRL TechConnect Blog.

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The Power, Promise, and Pitfalls of Networks in Learning – Alec Couros Kicks of #ettipad San Diego

EdTechTeacher

To kick off this event, Alec Couros ( @courosa ), Associate Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina is giving the opening keynote. One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. Beth Holland Blog Featured #ettipad Alec Couros Keynote LIVEblog'

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Maker Party 2014: Resources for Libraries and Learning Spaces

Educator Innovator

This post originally appeared on the Mozilla Webmaker blog. Punk A Friend : Use X-Ray Goggles to remix a friend’s social media profile, their favorite web site, or a news article. For more support and professional development, join the Webmaker Training MOOC. Remix Animated GIF Music Videos. Make a 6 Word Memoir.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, March 12th at 9am PDT in Seattle, WA Maker Movement at NCCE 2014 with Sylvia Martinez, Join colleagues for a day of hard fun and problem solving — where computing meets tinkering and design. Friday, March 14th at 8:30am PDT NCCE 2014 Keynote: "Making, Love, and Learning" with Gary Stager. Sign up here , and join us here.