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Live Online Video Classes Are ‘The New Face-to-Face.’ So How Many Students Can They Handle at a Time?

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Nelson says the new version of the system lets professors quickly divide a large class into groups of up to 12 students. The requirement of filling out the worksheet, or doing some other activity like a poll or quiz, makes sure students in breakout groups stay on task, Nelson says.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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Allison Salisbury: Here at EdSurge we’ve watched and admired as groups from Student Voice to Young Invincibles grow in power and visibility, emboldening students to speak up and speak out. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! The interview, “ Why U.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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One of the best ways to do this is to seek out inspiration from other learning designers. For example, look at the examples of host education that Airbnb puts together. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. One example is Great Hill Partners, which invested in Examity in April.

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Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund

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Education rewards patience, and one investor group has re-upped its coffers. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) Andela and Guild Education are prime examples of companies he would have liked to invest in. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. has closed on a second fund totalling $107.5

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example.

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

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So, for example, a lot of teachers love to use Quizlet, which is a great company — they build these really complicated quizzes, really interesting stuff, and you can just take those and bring them right into the Versal course. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. Freund: It can get quite sophisticated.

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