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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. He rolled out the course software and it provided quick feedback for the students in his courses, who were able to complete those courses at a much higher rate than when Willem was teaching everyone individually.” Fisher College.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

We do hybrid classrooms. We do flipped classrooms. And this has kept kind of the digital adoption rate in higher education very low — we’re at about an 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate because the prices of the used market directly undercut the available digital prices and certainly the new textbook prices.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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