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Mobile learning and personal metrics

Learning with 'e's

The rise is also due to people''s desire to develop their learning informally. There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners).

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. I can see that happening with school.

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Give Your Traditional Syllabus a Needed Makeover!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Check out their article, How to Create an Infographic Syllabus. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Piktochart is a free infographic tool. Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. Find several syllabus infographics for various subjects here. Gamify your syllabus!

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

You can receive updates from Hack Education via email if you prefer to read articles that way.). Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code. Online Learning. Mobile Learning. Wishful Thinking.

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How—and Why—We Can Improve the Future of Mobile Learning

Edsurge

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Despite this promising beginning, the role of mobile devices in the classroom and in education overall is still rather limited.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - The Conference - Next Up #Reinvent14 - Appreciative Inquiry and AERO

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Thursday, April 24th at 7am Learning Revolution Keynotes , Don''t miss Pat Farenga on "What is the role of the teacher when children learn on their own?" Education Revolution Google+ Community Guidelines for Project Based Learning. Prasanna Bharti shared this Ed Tech Review article on project based learning.