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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." Designed to adjust in real-time to each student's prior knowledge and skill attainment, adaptive systems respond to variations in ability and diverse student backgrounds, sensitive to the the unique needs of each learner.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Lesson 2: Ground yourself in the fundamentals of learning science. Teachers have spent decades learning how to reliably help students master new skills, debunk misconceptions, and connect their prior knowledge to new concepts. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. Ignoring corporate and consumer dependency on an on-demand gig workforce is not a sustainable strategy.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” Reader, they were not.

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