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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

Blended Learning. Blended learning is a school or classroom structure in which students learn partially from direct teacher instruction and partially in more self-directed activities.[1] 1] This mixture might be perfect if students are learning from both school and home next year. Personalized Learning.

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

Research also suggests that online learning can encourage intrinsic motivation.[1] 1] In part, this is because online learning often involves some level of independence—and independent learning is also linked to motivated students.[12] Gamification and student motivation. Williams, K., and Williams, C. Buckley, P.,

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7 e-learning trends for educational institutions in 2017

Neo LMS

2016 so far has been a very challenging year, yet also very rewarding. One very good thing of 2016 was that the ed tech world never stopped evolving, not even for a second. Without further ado, here are seven e-learning trends that could shape the edtech landscape in 2017: Gamification. Personalized learning.

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How to Use Digital Textbooks in the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

A four-year university-wide study conducted by Florida Virtual Campus reports that 70% of the respondents surveyed said that they had spent at least $300 on textbooks in the year 2016. Benefit from Blended Learning: While technology cannot completely replace human interaction, a blended approach can take learning to the next level.

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Diary of a Techy Teacher: Why I’m Taking a One-Year Sabbatical with BetterLesson

Edsurge

When I was named the 2016 Montana Teacher of the Year, I became a voice for education in my state. It’s Improving My Instructional Coaching This year, I will be working as a Blended Learning Instructional Coach with BetterLesson. Elena Aguilar in "The Art of Coaching" One of my passions is blended learning.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Taking Student Voice Beyond The Classroom

techlearning

It is 2016 and I’m just starting my current job at Fair Haven. FH Gizmos launched in May of 2016. The next school year, 2016-2017, we made about a $100, but FH Gizmos also got an amazing email. At the same time I started the Innovation Lab in 2016, I was invited to a gamification conference at UPenn.