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Amazon Taps Stanford Professor, Candace Thille to Lead Internal Professional Learning

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The move may seem unusual particularly as Thille, a frequent speaker at education conferences, has openly questioned the role of technology companies in developing learning technologies. Chris Noon, a former Oxford lecturer,has led seminars on technical topics for members of Dropbox’s sales team.

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Loop Learnings: A Year of Insights from Digital Learning Leaders

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One is specifically for instructional designers and the other is for deans, directors and provosts leading digital learning initiatives around the country. The cohort model provides an organic value to the discussions, much like seminars among graduate cohorts. The future is adaptive. adaptive learning.

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Live Online Video Classes Are ‘The New Face-to-Face.’ So How Many Students Can They Handle at a Time?

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The online university advertises its video-based online courses as active-learning seminars, so these class sizes are modeled after their counterparts at many traditional face-to-face colleges. This is not an operation where one person does it. It takes a team."

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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

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Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning. Her team used the online communication platform to lead an online seminar about an ambiguous and risky text. Check out how they did it—and why they’ll use Slack again.

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Playing Games Can Build 21st-Century Skills. Research Explains How.

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Thus, learning objectives were reframed as quests—a staple of many role playing games—challenging kids to design a safe transport into the earth’s crust during science class or simulate court cases during civics. But make no mistake: game design is very important for learning.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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The technologies built by these companies span a wide gamut of buzzwords (adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, gamification) but will be integrated with TAL’s online offerings. TAL has already directly funded a handful of U.S. edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley.

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When Teaching Large Classes, Professors Shouldn’t Try To Put On a Show

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Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, has taught so many large classes that she jokes she has trouble readjusting to a small seminar room. There are adaptive-learning components, all sorts of things that are available from the publishers. Those things are, to me, great in majors courses.

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