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

Digital Promise

In addition, UDL’s mission of recognizing each learner as an individual provides the foundation for building trust and partnership with a teacher or facilitator––key pieces in constructing a healthy, sustainable learning environment that makes learning student-centered and accessible for all. Learn More.

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

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That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. From adaptive learning to adaptive learners Siemens worries that current education systems aren’t adjusting to this new reality.

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

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Getting a C is just the first step in a process of actually learning something, not the demonstration that you hadn't learned it. We focus on technology in education, and these days there’s a lot of talk about trends like adaptive learning and flipped classrooms. So I think some of those things can be very valuable.

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A Visual Cheat Sheet For Education Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

The following infographic/cheat sheet from @goboundless outlines some of the larger scale (eLearning) or controversial (MOOC) movements, as well as those on the rise (1:1, personalized learning), and providing working definitions for each. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Blended Learning. Asynchronous Learning.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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General insecurity or misunderstanding about how to meaningfully integrate technology in the classroom. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Change in credibility of a high school diploma or college degree. Increasingly formal use of social media by education institutions.