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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School. For example, the iPhone was only 3 years old and smartphones were just taking off in 2010. This was our #1 take away from Virtual School in 2010 in Bangkok. Lessons Learned: 1. Again, video is the key!

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Can Entrepreneurs Balance Educational and Financial Returns?

Edsurge

In his 2010 book, Building Social Business, micro finance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus defines “social entrepreneurship” as an “initiative of social consequences created by an entrepreneur with a social vision.” This has created opportunity for other companies such as Moodle and Instructure to enter the LMS space.

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Week of December 6, 2010 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] CONCERNS ABOUT STUDENT''S ASSESSMENT. We will try to clear up the misunderstandings about the procedure and the role of student’s assessment. link] MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES AND MOODLE Q&A (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR) Wed 8 Dec 03:30PM New York / Wed 8 Dec 08:30PM GMT / Thu 8 Dec 06:30AM Sydney Laura Mikowychok.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

Edsurge

We sat down with Boyer to learn more about his flipped syllabus, unique assessments, and the hard work that goes into an easy A. He shares some of his favorite foreign films: “ Aftershock ” (2010, Chinese, directed by Xiaogang Feng)—An absolutely awesome teaching tool for many different aspects of Chinese culture.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] MELBOURNE MOODLE USER GROUP ( Australia Series ) Tue 12 Apr 06:00AM New York / Tue 12 Apr 10:00AM GMT / Tue 12 Apr 10:00PM Sydney Coach Carole. The topic will be ‘How to use Elluminate in conjunction with Moodle for Online courses’. link] ASSISTMENTS ( Math 2.0

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