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Why Is Teaching So Prone to Fads?

Edsurge

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. It was low-tech, but it foreshadowed some of the adaptive learning systems of today. The problem is finding the will to pay for that, and to make high-quality education accessible.

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

Edsurge

He’s co-authored popular books, including Brain Briefs Answers to the Most and Least Pressing Questions About Your Mind. In the most recent book that you co-authored, Brain Briefs: Answers to the Most (and Least) Pressing Questions about Your Mind, one of the chapters is titled "Do Schools Teach the Way Students Learn?"

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo on EdTech

Educational publishers, who till now had a steady stream of income compared to non-educational book publishers, due to the recurring need for textbooks every year by students, are now gradually shifting towards digital publishing. It offers unlimited access to digital textbooks and course materials for $119.99 a semester.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. And so our idea was simple: to connect the two by allowing students to pay per use for their book. So I think you’re focused on the right place.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” The states in question: Texas and Nevada.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. Upgrades and Downgrades.