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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before. Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams.

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?Edtech is Trapped in Ben Bloom’s Basement

Edsurge

And in the process of trying to educate myself on the matter, I’ve come to a scary realization: Edtech is trapped in Ben Bloom’s basement. For all Silicon Valley’s talk of “disrupting” education, most of the edtech that exists today simply digitizes ineffective aspects of education’s yesteryear. But, I certainly can’t excuse it.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before. Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment

TeachThought - Learn better.

Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment. As assessment becomes more data-driven, however, it’s important that we remember what the real goal of this data should be. It’s not simply about better assessment; it’s about empowering better learning. By Andrew Smith Lewis.

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The Year in Podcasts: Top EdSurge On Air Episodes of 2018

Edsurge

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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