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In China, Online Degrees on Hold, Even as MOOCs Rise

Edsurge

In fact, the country has no institution that is approved to deliver online degrees, even though it has moved rapidly to embrace MOOCs, free or low-cost online courses offered to millions throughout the country. advances in online pedagogy, such as flipped classrooms and MOOCs. MOOCs have proven wildly popular in China.

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For Best Results, Pair MOOCs With In-Person Support

Edsurge

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) transfixed higher education in the early 2010s, so much so that The New York Times dubbed 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." At the time, many thought MOOCs might become a replacement for both classroom instruction and ingrained models of learning. It’s easy to see why.

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5 Essential Practices for Designated and Integrated ELD

The CoolCatTeacher

They have a new classroom management tool called Collections. The new classroom management features in Metaverse are free to try with promo code ARforEDU. Today’s Sponsor: Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality app.

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3 Questions to Ask Your Community as a School Administrator

The Principal of Change

What are some things that you would like to see in your classroom, and how can I help with that process? At the end of the day, success as a school administrator is about the experience that helps in the classroom. What does an ideal classroom look like, and how can I, in my role, support the creation of that type of learning? .

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. million in 2019 to 18.6 And, perhaps most importantly, when is the right time to invest?

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

Learning with 'e's

The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace. Present-day students, who interact with a steady stream of digital media throughout the day, are generally unsurprised by video in the classroom; if anything, they expect it. The future?

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Learning to Learn Beyond the Test

The Principal of Change

Years ago, I wrote about the idea of “ School vs. Learning ,” and I know (based on the image below) that A) so many schools are doing a great job of bringing the “learning” column into their classrooms and B) the ideas on each side are not meant to be an “either/or” scenario.