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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

Neo LMS

It wasn’t only a means of continuing to help students progress academically but to show them compassion, boosting their confidence in themselves and the future. Online learning bloomed, students helped each other, the community contributed with knowledge, moral and financial support, and social interaction was kept alive.

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Former Pearson, edX Exec Raises $7.5M to Build AI-Powered Digital Courseware

Edsurge

While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. But despite that high figure, research from MIT has found that on average, just over 3 percent of students who started a course finished it. “If

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

Edsurge

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. Let’s start with the basics.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.) Uber for Education". “We

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