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Why Is Teaching So Prone to Fads?

Edsurge

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. It was low-tech, but it foreshadowed some of the adaptive learning systems of today. The problem is finding the will to pay for that, and to make high-quality education accessible.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice."

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.

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Tight on Goals, Flexible on Means: Universal Design for Learning Empowers Opportunity Youth

Digital Promise

We and our partners are committed to bringing the voices and experiences of Opportunity Youth learners (low-income young people of promise, ages 16 to 24) and educators to the conversation about learning differences. The Fellows also participate in a MOOC focused on understanding and responding to learning differences in their classroom.

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What Faculty Need to Know About ‘Learner Experience Design’

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Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptive learning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. Does our current quality evaluation ensure a wonderful learning experience?

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Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment

TeachThought - Learn better.

Paul’s notion of data helping build students’ metacognitive skills is a valuable one, and one that we need to keep incorporating into data-driven approaches to both teaching and learning. MOOCs, for example, have provided some of the most exciting and worthwhile developments within education technology in the past couple decades.

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

Edsurge

All the complex reasoning and storytelling abilities that we have involve brain structures that are literally built on top of that other structure, and they don't have great access to what's going on in the motivational system. How helpful do you think these types of tech innovations will be, or can a low-tech solution be more helpful?

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