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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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How Virtual IT Labs Prepare Students for Real-Life Work

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When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. In 2011, it had only five full-time faculty members. Join an online learning community, such as Google Educator Groups. Ashford was one of the leading schools in that area.

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Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. In this presentation, I will guide participants step by step on sign up and download Mendeley to their computer/mobile devices.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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Removing the Obstacles in Education so Innovation and Academics Can Flourish

The Principal of Change

If you’re thinking you don’t have the time, remember that your technology is mobile. For example, at Google, once employees are two or three years out of college, their grades have no bearing on their performance. (Of Of course, it must be said that if you got D’s, you probably didn’t end up at Google.).

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Week of July 25, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate (Formerly Elluminate)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He also mixed in constructivism, ZPD, Macbooks, cell phones, Google Apps and more. link] INTRODUCTION TO THE EPCOP MOOC ( Australia Series ) Wed 27 Jul 06:00AM New York / Wed 27 Jul 10:00AM GMT / Wed 27 Jul 08:00PM Sydney Coach Carole. How do you create a MOOC? Join us online to unpack the EpCoP MOOC. Why not?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Apparently the FAFSA will soon be available on mobile devices. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. .” Also from the Department of Education’s press office : “U.S.

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