Edsurge
MAY 14, 2017
Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. The latest, MEDSKL , aims to provide comprehensive medical content for use inside and outside the classroom. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. And, perhaps most importantly, when is the right time to invest?
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Learning with 'e's
OCTOBER 29, 2012
Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). 2006) Informal Learning: Rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning. Practice Application Brief No.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. " Cop s**t supposedly brings order to the classroom by demanding compliance. Unfathomable. Impenetrable. Incomprehensible. Inexplicable. Unknowable.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? In 2006 I described and recommended the community-based model to support sustainable OER-based pedagogy. His focus has been on traditional institutions of learning and the traditional classroom model.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. ” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. Flipped Classroom.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
” – 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. In October of 2006 , Gartner said that Apple’s “best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell.”
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