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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs.

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

Edsurge

Form follows function, as the adage says, but these universities are flipping that script and betting that a more flexible and adaptive form will unlock needed changes in the teaching and learning function. And that dialogue helps inform the work of IU’s learning spaces team. Collaborative Learning Studio at Indiana University.

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

Learning with 'e's

Video plays an important role in all of these alternative modes of learning experience (Brame, 2015) and will continue to do so with future developments. 2015) Effective educational videos, Available online at: [link] (Accessed 30 April, 2019). The future? So what will educational video look like in the future? Parlour, A.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

2009): Collaborative learning : Teachers have opportunities to learn in a supportive community that organizes curriculum across grade levels and subjects. When teachers and schools engage in high-quality collaboration, it leads to better achievement gains in math and reading for students.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

.” For me, still framing my work that way – “top trends” – is a purposeful rhetorical move to shed light, to subvert, to offer a sly commentary of sorts on the shallowness of what passes as journalism, criticism, analysis. 2015 – the phones in their pockets. Apple sold just 50 million iPads.

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Experiential Learning Simply Explained

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For collaborative learning approaches). Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-Based Instruction on Students’ Learning Outcomes in K-12 and Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis. For Virtual Reality in learning). An Experiential Learning Perspective on Students’ Satisfaction Model in a Flipped Classroom Context.