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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Smart Classrooms have become popular because they provide a flexible, self-paced learning environment; one that levels the playing field for students by making education more accessible to all types of learners. There are hundreds of different LMS brands, including popular programs like Blackboard, Canvas and Moodle. and whiteboard.

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21st Century School — How Technology Is Changing Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Today’s students have access to far more knowledge than their parents once found in encyclopedias and on maps. With the click of a mouse and without leaving the classroom, they can access the collective knowledge of all mankind via the Internet. But that’s not the only way technology is making it easier for students to learn.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

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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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. I would bet many instructors want to feel a connection to their students, and the active video feed counts for much more than an email reply or a Blackboard discussion post. What’s the reasoning here?

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

Edsurge

This is the more responsive approach that Weissman studied in July at Harvard, where he joined two dozen other college educators from around the country, tucked inside the air-conditioned, blackboard-walled rooms of Harvard’s Science Center. But the impact the educators hope for reaches beyond the classroom, too.

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Why History Matters

Hack Education

And I’m sorry, but another aside: if you get your history of education from a guy who calls Thomas Jefferson’s slaves “employees” then you might have some real problems discerning the kinds of sources – primary or secondary – that you should take seriously.). Why blackboards? When blackboards?

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

Edsurge

It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. That, Avida says, gives his tool a leg up in terms of being more accessible to a wider audience. It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says.

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