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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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And then lastly a lot of these Learning Gadgets allow you to bring in third-party content — so almost anything that exists on the web you can bring right into a Versal course, organize it, organize it in lessons, put assessments in between, and so on. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. ” Via the ACT press release : “ ACT to Deliver Assessment for the Moral Education Program to Students in the UAE.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOCMOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. They’re back?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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