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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate. Learn more about implementing edtech into your classroom here.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate. Learn more about implementing edtech into your classroom here.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Common Core) for individual students. See also Personalized Learning, Differentiated Learning, and Self-Directed Learning. These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes. Individualized Learning. The customizing of universal content (e.g., Informal Learning.