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Khan Academy Has Inspired Imitations Across Disciplines. MEDKSL is the Latest.

Edsurge

As he started to design MEDSKL in 2015, Sharma realized he didn’t feel comfortable lecturing on topics outside his focus area—so he asked colleagues for help. There are a growing number of students who use Google and YouTube to study instead of buying textbooks. Nobody really knows yet what works for online learning,” he says. “A

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Return of the Virtual Reality Hype Cycle (What’s Different This Time?)

Edsurge

On the other end of the market, Google is offering its $15 Cardboard alongside Expeditions, which takes viewers on virtual field trips. With the explosive growth of online learning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was widespread speculation that new online courses would soon incorporate immersive environments.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. How personalized learning came to New Orleans.

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Maha, the Path to OER-Enabled Pedagogy, and Technological Determinism

Iterating Toward Openness

While the term “open pedagogy” appeared with some frequency on my blog for a number of years ( Google site search link ), I believe these posts show the important contours of how my thinking evolved: What is Open Pedagogy (2013), where I first “introduce” (more on that below) and define the term.

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11 lessons from schools that kept Covid cases low

The Hechinger Report

In Austin, Indiana , an existing relationship between the local school district and local public health department, built during the town’s HIV/AIDS outbreak in 2015, streamlined Covid-19 communication. Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home.

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Technology can support social-emotional learning

Kathy Schrock

I conducted a research query on social-emotional learning and came up with tons of research studies and methods for infusing social-emotional learning into the classroom and across the content areas. However, the addition of sound in classrooms with computer/tablet headphones would not take away from the goal of the exercise.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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