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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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perception, market advantages, resource needs, usage patterns, etc.), Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. Robotics in the classroom. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. In short, by “disruption,” we are referring to something that causes the kind of impact that leads to change.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” Perhaps this story fits better in the “human resources” section below, but I’ll stick it here.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Department of Education is looking for nonprofit organizations to help support its #GoOpen campaign to nurture state and district take-up of ‘open’ educational resources ,” says EdWeek’s Market Brief. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Doane University has joined edX.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.). But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?” It's religion.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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They recorded school resource officers. 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. Students recorded fellow students. Chatbot Instructors.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The curriculum company Great Minds is appealing a lawsuit in which it claimed that FedEx had violated the “open” in its open educational resources by making copies. Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.