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The Future of Education and VR

Veative

Most educators and researchers concur that it is imperative to move away from the current model of education that is largely based on passive instruction and excessive assessments, and instead cultivate the idea of learning as an intellectual adventure and a lifelong passion in the minds of young learners. Data and intelligent analytics.

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What is the role of the teacher in the online classroom? Connectivism might provide an answer

Neo LMS

By learning together in a learning community, students have the opportunity to extend and deepen their learning experience, test out new ideas by sharing them with a supportive group, and receive critical and constructive feedback.” ( Palloff & Pratt 2005 ). On connectivism in the classroom.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has published on open education, Rhizomatic Learning, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Digital Identity, and practical classroom uses of virtual worlds. His educational exploration partners have included faculty and researchers from well-known universities, and lone teachers in small town classrooms.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. Since 2005, US universities have been the victim of almost 550 data breaches involving nearly 13 million known records. And they boost intelligence – namely, how knowledge is created and shared. Perhaps they do.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Average final exam scores among students assigned to classrooms that allowed computers were 18 percent of a standard deviation lower than exam scores of students in classrooms that prohibited computers.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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