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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Tight on Goals, Flexible on Means: Universal Design for Learning Empowers Opportunity Youth

Digital Promise

The Fellows learn how to: Assess student learning differences in the classroom and implement responsive instructional strategies premised on UDL; Use technological tools and flexible instructional media to provide a rich and adaptive learning environment; and. Learn More.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

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He also writes a blog for Psychology Today magazine, and co-hosts a podcast through Austin’s NPR station called Two Guys on Your Head. Take a recent blog post he wrote about mindfulness, for instance. One topic that you tackled recently on your blog that struck me is mindfulness. And he’s full of surprising findings.

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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.”) I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. Subscribe to their blog.

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. I can see that happening with school.