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EdSurge HigherEd Welcomes Jeff Young

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EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! But as it turns out, massive online classes are still with us—my wife and I are slowly making our way through a philosophy MOOC from the University of Copenhagen. What was particularly memorable to you about that article? So what happened here?

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The Power, Promise, and Pitfalls of Networks in Learning – Alec Couros Kicks of #ettipad San Diego

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One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. ” – Seymour Papert He then compares iPhone to a lightbulb. He then showed the number of people who either extolled the spoof or fell for it and then fried their iPhones. He has always been a fan of Open Educational Resources.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. The quotation is from 2012.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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The twenty assessments include: Evaluating Wikipedia : Students evaluate the trustworthiness of an article on Wikipedia, assessing whether they can reason about the specific features that make a Wikipedia article more or less reliable. Comparing Articles : Students determine whether a news story or a sponsored post is more reliable.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? ” The phone was not a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which have been recalled because of battery explosions, but an iPhone 6 Plus. Raise $146.1 Dead) Lady Macbeth?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. This isn’t a “meanwhile on campus story,” but I’m not sure where else to put articles about sexual harassment and sexual assault. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Will they make it happen? .”

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ). Only “1.86