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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data. ” Lesson learned #3: Don’t chase trends.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data. ” Lesson learned #3: Don’t chase trends.

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

Edsurge

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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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo on EdTech

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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Speak Up, Speak Out! The Student Voices That Stirred Higher Ed in 2016

Edsurge

Below is just a small sample of the range of activities and conversations they engaged in, as described by Andrew Rikard , an undergraduate at Davidson College and the facilitator of the inaugural cohort: “We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Via eSchool News : “Why chatbots are not the future of student engagement.” The “adaptive learning” company has raised $23.5

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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. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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