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50 Alternatives To Lecturing

TeachThought - Learn better.

In the background knowledge-building phase of learning, for example. Or in a “flipped classroom” setting where the “lecture” is designed to be consumed at the student’s own pace (using viewing strategies , for example). ” (Prince 2004). Self-guided MOOC. Traditional MOOC.

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

Bryan Alexander

For example, currently two-thirds of community colleges have launched mobile apps, but CIOs largely don’t see the deployment as effective. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. Casey thought that might be the case, as a partial response.

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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

Lead by Example Students : As an online instructor you need to establish a highly visible and interactive virtual presence. Encourage Reflection through Student Self-Assessment : Self-assessment rubrics and discussion boards allow for reflective thinking of assignment content. This means going above and beyond student initiated emails.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. The quotation is from 2012. Maybe it will.).

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Developing and Delivering Effective Professional Development for Educators

EdTechTeam

For example, on teacher training days “Teacher A” must have a choice to choose an advanced session for English Essay Writing but a beginner session for technology integration. For example , a few years back “Integrating Technology” into the curriculum was the focus for my school. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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Hope for the Future

Hack Education

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago, an interview with an Uber engineer who'd pleaded guilty to stealing Google's self-driving car technology. There are other examples of this historical amnesia in ed-tech specifically, no doubt. Tall tales about the invention of the MOOC.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Take iPads , for example. Or MOOCs even. “But I thought that if, as long as I didn’t let him in, he couldn’t tell me.