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What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside 'Walled Gardens'?

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Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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Using Google Tools to Personalize Learning #GoogleEduOnAir

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Yesterday I had the absolute privilege to join thousands of amazing educators learning and sharing their learning as part of the Google for Education on Air Event - If Takes A Teacher. I learned so much from watching fellow educators share their insights into teaching and learning throughout the day.

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edX Staked Its Reputation on Its Nonprofit Status. What Will It Mean To Be Part of For-Profit 2U?

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And how can whatever this new nonprofit does make up for the abandoned role of running a major online-learning platform that was actively offering low-cost options for students around the world? In exchange, the colleges give up a large portion of the revenue from those online programs for a set number of years.

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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

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Google Cardboard. Google Cardboard was the result of a 36-hour hackathon by Google’s education team, where staff were tasked with finding ways to boost student engagement. The cardboard goggles when combined with an Android phone, preloaded with any of Google’s Cardboard apps, are a simple way to bring classroom lessons to life.

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Parents Are Getting More Involved in Remote Learning. Is That a Good Thing?

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The shift to remote learning has been a big adjustment for my kids. Every day their mother and I wake up to teacher emails cataloging overdue assignments and a Google Classroom page brimming with new ones. Not every teacher is adjusting to online learning on the fly like Adao. Jacqueline Jeffus is one of those teachers.

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Why Students Want Tuition Refunds Over Shift to Online Teaching

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For this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast , we dive into the debate over tuition refunds during this sudden period of mass online education during COVID-19, when it’s simply not safe to do what we all took for granted just a couple of months ago, like sit in the back of a lecture hall with 300 other students. Or read a short recap below.

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Top Tips for Teaching Online From Educators Doing It Now

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She and her eLearning team worked to boost the state’s efforts to connect Indiana to great ideas in educational technology, virtual and online learning, and new learning models and instructional practices. Ashley holds current Google Level 1 & 2 certifications and is a Google Certified Trainer.