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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

Edsurge

“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. Most teachers use the free version, but the company offers a more full-featured product that costs $65-per year.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. Kimm will share resources and show participants how to join a community of educators ready to take action. In Son, J.-B.

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How one small college exemplifies higher education’s problems and potential solutions

The Hechinger Report

You know, what’s the trend?”. Lately many trends affecting small colleges like this one have been particularly worrying. This view of the city’s skyline is from the library. Doing that required leveraging another corner of the favorably situated campus, which Emmanuel leased to the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.

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Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel

Hack Education

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. And to be clear, this isn’t simply about the relationship of these companies to “the news” – although my god, they’re so terrible at handling that. Small world, I guess.).