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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher professional development needs to be practical, fit your schedule, and improve your classroom — and I’ve found professional development from Advancement Courses that does just that! Recently, I took a course from Advancement Courses called Teaching Computer Science in 6-12. Look at Courses.

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The Internet Could Offer Free, Accredited College Courses For All

EdNews Daily

But for all the sophistication of the Internet age, the idea of getting top quality college courses online for free, and using them for credits in the traditional college system, is only now being tested. More worryingly, just over one in ten degrees awarded in 2014 were given to those from low-income households. A Moral Imperative.

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How Cajon Valley Union School District Bridged the Communication Gap

EdTech Magazine

Technology played a crucial role, of course. In 2014, more than 90 percent of the district’s teachers committed to implementing a blended and… But the single most important factor turned out to be trust. Cajon Valley first began to embrace the digital age long before the pandemic shuttered its schools.

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Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable

Edsurge

I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. billion, to be exact—comes courtesy of a $10 million Series B round from NewView Capital , whose founder and managing partner, Ravi Viswanathan, will join Course Hero’s board of directors. But its CEO winces when he hears the word.

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Community and #RemoteLearning Conversations with Brad Currie

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses has a free micro-course – Launching Online Learning. Register for this free micro-course. Now is the time we all need to educate ourselves on effective online teaching and I recommend this course as a great place to start. Thank you, Advancement Courses for sponsoring this show.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. The MOOC backlash.

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3 Strategies for Personalizing Feedback Online

Catlin Tucker

Online students who received audio feedback perceived that feedback as more thorough, detailed, and personal than text feedback (Voelkel & Mello, 2014). Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015).

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