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6 Steps that prove any teacher can create educational videos

Neo LMS

As such, educational videos are nothing new, especially in the world of asynchronous and blended learning. Now, classroom teaching is different from video teaching. And while these videos free up some time for other activities, achieving your goal of offering an effective learning experience depends on their quality.

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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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The Importance of Multi-Disciplinary Thinking

The Principal of Change

I was sent a video called “ The Adaptable Mind ” by educator Erin Caldwell. ” It would be an excellent video for discussion with students and/or staff. . ” It would be an excellent video for discussion with students and/or staff.

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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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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.

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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote

EdTechTeacher

” The idea, though, that the kids had separated from technology was ridiculous as Justin shows a YouTube video on how to make a rainbow loom starbust bracelet that has been viewed over 30 million times! As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. Shifts are happening in the labor market.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Or MOOCs even. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes. Projectors.