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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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The New Education #bookreview

Learning with 'e's

The strapline for Davidson's latest book is ' how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux. This implies that campus based higher education may not be able to improve at a similar rate, due to its inertia and stagnation. Yes, more students than ever are enrolled on MOOCs (p. Unported License.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” At any time, students can ask for a hint, but even those are only clues about how to proceed.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

Possiblye the FCC will extend E-rate funding to poorer areas. The question Casey asks is, how to get more value out of the LMS? How to grow its functionality? How to avoid suffering from “semantic remorse”? For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Terry: I think like any professional, distance educators need to know how to effectively use the tools of their trade. What are your views on MOOCs? Unported License.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education) Using Scratch and Picoboards to teach "x", Maths and Science - Martin Levins, Director IT What''s The Connection?

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