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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

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

Edsurge

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'

Hack Education

” 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. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Only “1.86

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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.”. 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.

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