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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

If they learn how to engage the online learner, then hiding behind the safety of the student-initiated email wouldn’t be necessary. Instructors should incorporate engagement techniques such as brief, live streamed online lectures using Google Hangouts , Zoom , Adobe Connect to name a few. As online educators we can ….

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. Google is closing down the Hangouts API. “Student engagement platform” ClearScholar has raised $1.25 The deal was signed with Sonic Foundry.).