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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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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. Google Earth. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. I can see that happening with school. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.” Smarter Every Day on YouTube.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content. Content-Driven vs. Connection-Driven.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. The TED Talk.

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