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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Sink or swim. million students. All you need is your imagination.”
Edsurge
DECEMBER 28, 2018
While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?
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TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 12, 2020
Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. Video, of course, enables other innovations. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. We shall see.
Edsurge
MAY 30, 2019
He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. She has also taught courses at community colleges as an adjunct, and worked as director of learning design at an experimental public nonprofit college called Western Governors University. “In
Edsurge
JULY 20, 2017
Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. Surely a lot has changed!
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. The Flipped Classroom". He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
She — and I recognize that teachers aren't always female, but the profession is certainly feminized — is alone in a classroom of other people's children, after all. Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example.
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