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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Subscribe to the Show Anywhere You Listen to Podcasts This week's sponsor Modern Classrooms will help you teach better today!

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The Pandemic Pushed Colleges to Record Lectures. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.

Edsurge

That option proved useful for students with unreliable internet access at home, those living in far-away timezones, and those who had trouble following along with professors who were teaching while wearing masks. If a classroom is being recorded, students need to know, according to Pendse. It brings equity to the course.

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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

On the other side of the spectrum are countries where most of the population can only dream about higher education, because only a few — the elite — have access to it. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education.

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 University of Houston System via Coursera. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera.

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8 teacher-loved edtech tools to try in 2017

eSchool News

To help you get a little bit more innovative in the coming academic year, here is a list of proven-effective edtech tools that may be highly useful in the classroom. For Online Courses/Blended Learning. Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses.

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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. More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. .”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning.

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