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The Benefits of a Just-in-Time Flipped Class

Fractus Learning

As they say on their website : Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT for short) is a teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom. Then, I am much better prepared for the class as the assessment (the feedback) provides me useful knowledge about what they know and don’t know.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Phoenix ’s online enrollment plummets while Western Governors and Southern New Hampshire near 100,000 students as they vie to rule the roost.” A big maybe,” says New America.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Blackboard Learn Ultra : Ready or not?” million from Learn Capital, Social Capital, University Ventures, and Joe Grundfest. Listen Current was founded by former public radio journalist Monica Brady-Myerov. Will the Market Provide Them?”