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#DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning?

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Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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At EdSurge, we’re setting our own sights high for 2018, but that starts by taking a look at what our higher-ed community liked the most from this year. We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers. New years mean clean slates, fresh perspectives and goal setting for the months ahead.

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The Importance of Multi-Disciplinary Thinking

The Principal of Change

In the article, “ Why solving the world’s problems needs to start a multi-disciplinary approach ,” they shared a story on the connection between engineering and understanding humanity: One traffic intersection in the center of Drachten, Netherlands, accommodates 20,000 drivers as well as many bicyclists and pedestrians each day.

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Removing the Obstacles in Education so Innovation and Academics Can Flourish

The Principal of Change

In the article, “What Straight-A Students Get Wrong,” by Adam Grant, he discusses the idea that academic success is not always an indicator of future success: The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. That is not what I took from the article at all.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It's Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies. She is a member of LITA’s Information Technology and Libraries board where she peer reviews articles for their peer reviewed open source journal.

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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

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As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. From the SPARC press release : “Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics. Her remarks.) .”