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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

Others, like genius hour and bite-sized learning, are recently arrived educational trends that may have a helpful place in your classroom. This year, as schools moved to online learning and teachers scrambled to adjust their curriculum, many teachers, students, and parents gained new appreciation for the value of self-care.

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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] Research also suggests that online learning can encourage intrinsic motivation.[1]

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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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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. Online learning is on the rise. Preconference workshop.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.