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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching.

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Not Sure What Courseware to Try? This Tool Wants to Make Your Decision Easier

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But without proof, Monroe, vice president of academic innovation and support at Ivy Tech Community College, and her colleagues are searching in the dark to find the right tools that faculty can use to improve learning outcomes for the more than 200,000 students in the Indiana community college system. So much is coming at us,” Monroe says.

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New Grant Will Create Prizes for Faculty Using Digital Courseware

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The organization, formerly known as the Sloan Consortium, said it would award up to 10 prizes of $10,000 each to the faculty teams, beginning in 2016. Jason Palmer, a Gates foundation official, said the foundation’s chose the Online Learning Consortium to make the awards because of its expertise in the field.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

Edsurge

In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers. Our aim is to amplify the voices of students from all backgrounds to shape how higher education is evolving.

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Developing a Research Base to Evaluate Digital Courseware

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Online and blended learning continue to trend upward in higher education institutions across the U.S. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by. Examples include diagnosis of skills a learner is missing, or a prompt for a student to make a prediction. According to a.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS. The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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