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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

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There are myriad ways to promote student autonomy in the classroom and beyond, especially if you use an LMS. Flipped classes. The flipped classroom allows students to acquire new concepts at home via engaging videos, online courses, or even game-based learning. Competency-based learning and automation .

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

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It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. All of the students took a sigh of relief.”.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

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Use a Google Form to create a survey you can send to parents. Whether you already practice student-led conferences or are interested in getting started, Edutopia has a great list with examples and tips. Assign some pre-work. Ask them what they know about what their child is doing in class and how the year has gone so far.

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

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I came away from the institute eager to try inquiry-based instruction in my class during the 2015-16 school year. The switch to inquiry-based learning required a dramatic shift from teacher- to learner-driven instruction. Hoping to get to the root of the issue, I conducted an anonymous survey of my students.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. But the new mode of testing caused a great deal of headache too.

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