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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. 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. Video, of course, enables other innovations.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. After all, most professors started out believing they were destined to do scholarly work, perform research, publish results and teach in classrooms; but for most, teaching online was not what they had in mind. Sink or swim.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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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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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

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Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning? 2008) Self-Regulated Learning in Communities. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

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 might be less adept or even able to do the same when the classroom setting is digital.).

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. This curriculum design approach is used by teachers who work in traditional classrooms, but holds up just as well in the digital realm. A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers.

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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

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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. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.