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50 Alternatives To Lecturing

TeachThought - Learn better.

” (Prince 2004). This is a mix of learning models and literacy strategies that can be used to accomplish what we hope a lecture might–“give information” and “promote understanding.” Self-guided MOOC. Traditional MOOC. All students have a similar background knowledge. So then, the list.

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

Bryan Alexander

” Casey’s response: we have more information and expanded access to educational materials, but no increase in faculty productivity and no decrease in costs. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

We start by infusing technologies into course content that challenge students to learn and that students find useful, while creating interactive online environments that mimic today’s informal online learning experience. When students see that a course is online, they actually expect it to be online. They want engagement.

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. One: It’s the inaugural Horizon Report focused on information security, after the many previous editions that broadly covered “teaching and learning.”

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

Hack Education

Because of the amount of information that is published about ed-tech – the amount of information, its irrelevance, its incoherence, its lack of context – it can be quite challenging to keep up with what is really happening in ed-tech. It is creating an unprecedented explosion in the production of information.

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Developing and Delivering Effective Professional Development for Educators

EdTechTeam

In this age of digital transformation, educators may choose from the plethora of online MOOCs which are a convenient and no-travel option. Most of these MOOCs are free and are led by top professors from reputed global universities. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

It’s also a matter of a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, a business that Donald Trump and two associates founded in 2004. Each course promised that more information – the bigger secrets of Trump’s moneymaking success – would be revealed in the subsequent course. What are MOOCs, for example?