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Let your robots do the marking?

Learning with 'e's

A short article appearing in the Independent newspaper on April 6th highlights the tensions brewing because of the use of marking software. What he doesn''t say is that it''s an essential part of the management of MOOC s, especially if they are regularly enrolling upwards of 100,000 students for each course. What do you think?

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How will we learn languages in the future?

Mark Smithers

New technologies revamped foreign language learning, in this article we highlight out what to expect in the upcoming years. Chatting with robots. What if the teachers from the future are robots! When we talk about the future, we often think of robots, and in the case of foreign language learning, this may well become a reality.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Listen to this article. Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. 20 New Ways to Use #GoogleClassroom. Click To Tweet.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.”

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. The article names “generating revenue” as a “major challenge for districts and individual schools”—an assertion that might surprise school leaders who thought they were supposed to be teaching, not running a business.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies. She is a member of LITA’s Information Technology and Libraries board where she peer reviews articles for their peer reviewed open source journal. In Fall 2014 she led a MOOC, The Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends, that attracted over 1700 global participants.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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