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6 Steps that prove any teacher can create educational videos

Neo LMS

Video learning can hinder this effort if the video itself contains distractions such as superfluous information, background music, or “just for fun” animations. An often-cited study on MOOCs says videos should be around six minutes long. Segmenting information. What makes an educational video good?

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Keith Devlin from Stanford: Talking Media, Math, MOOCs, and Silicon Valley Money in Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition. He has written 31 books and over 80 published research articles.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter. Fathom, for its part, does have a Wikipedia entry. Unfathomable.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text. Breakpoint offers a very handy compilation of very needed information. (

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text. Breakpoint offers a very handy compilation of very needed information. (

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? Beginning in 2003 and continuing consistently thereafter I have depicted learning resources as words in a conversation , and applied the logic of language to the logic of reuse. We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.