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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). The promise of more time for active learning is key to the flipped appeal, its fans say.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. We learned this lesson early on when we had employees with dogs barking in the background, kids running up to them to sit on their laps, and, yes, even a parrot on screen.

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The Games Art Historians Play: Online Game-based Learning in Art History and Museum Contexts

ProfHacker

I recently posted a query on the CAAH listserv (Consortium of Art and Architectural Historians) to research online game-based and gamified learning in art history and museums. That listserv discussion suggested there exists considerable confusion about what game-based learning is, so my goal here is to address that practical need.

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WGU President Scott Pulsipher on Bringing Customer-Centric Culture to Universities

Edsurge

Individuals come with different knowledge, they learn in different ways, they learn at different paces. We run seminars specifically about competency-based education, our approach to it, how you design for it—everything from the program design to the instruction, assessment and evaluation. Yeah, they do. Nine years.

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Don't Go #BacktoSchool without Knowing How Every Child Thrives

The Innovative Educator

He started a movement (learn more at Profoundly Disconnected ) to address the problem of a school system and national curriculum that are not designed to prepare students for fulfilling and independent lives. Enter a Big Picture Learning school, and you may be surprised to find on certain days their are no kids in school. Now there is.

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7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

TeachThought - Learn better.

7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback. Yesterday we shared an article on close reading, and today Grant looks at providing better feedback for learning. . We need to know the tangible consequences of our attempts, in the most concrete detail possible – goal-related facts from which we can learn. Goal-referenced.

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Live Thursday Dec. 16th with Writer Alfie Kohn (note early time)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In addition to speaking at staff development seminars and keynoting national education conferences on a regular basis, he conducts workshops for teachers and administrators on various topics. His many articles on education include a dozen widely reprinted essays in Phi Delta Kappan from 1991 to 2008.