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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

In today’s examination system, when we consider the bloom taxonomy, bottom-level memorization occupies a dominant place, while comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are of less importance. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. inek vizsgálata - Szöll?si

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps. In June, Trump promised that he would re-open Trump University when he won the court case. (The