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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

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Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. This year, educational institutions are using blockchain for accessible record keeping. Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Virtual Classes.

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Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

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In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. Log in at [link].

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million. million students.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. Today, online education provides access to great masses of college students in the developing world, with Open Universities in Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey together currently enrolling more than 7 million students. During the global crisis, 1.6

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Week of July 25, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Join us as we talk about features in the Blackboard Collaborate online classroom. Thanks for your attention, and see you online!