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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. Video worked exceptionally well for us (even dating as far back as 2008) as our employees reported feeling more connected. Attending sessions and seminars at these events can also provide valuable professional development.

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

Edsurge

Also: What is a former consultant-turned-technology executive doing running one of the most-cited experiments in higher education?). Pulsipher: All of my background prior to WGU is mostly within the technology space. We think differently around how to utilize technology to advance outcomes and help the students progress.

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

The Innovative Educator

Rather than sit through a one-size-fits-all standards-based curriculum, students choose seminars that will help them excel in areas customized to their interests. Thrively gives every child a strength-based assessment that uncovers the student’s talents, interests, and abilities. They are supported by mentors and a school advisory.

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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). Simple designs work well, and simplicity makes things happen.”. Jon Bergmann.

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

ProfHacker

Elizabeth Goins (Rochester Institute of Technology) describes several recent projects including a 3D game based on Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights in her blog , and details as well assignments in which the students create games.

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Week of April 11, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Are you looking for fun way for students to demonstrate what they have learned using technology? Innovations in Education embodies an interactive and collaborative model of writing and publishing that demonstrates the powerful opportunities afforded by online technologies, innovative thinking, and cooperation around the world.

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

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. The slides are also available here. ” Interest wanes.

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