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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Check out Designing Online Assessments for Students — a course that can help you in this area.

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Who’s Playing Matchmaker Between Students and Employers?

Edsurge

As an introduction to this emerging sector, we’ve prepared a market map of companies focused on matching talent with entry level positions that we hope is helpful. On the X-axis we’ve mapped the companies by stage of investment. Bootstrapped companies are being funded by the entrepreneurs themselves (and their friends and families).

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Unleash The Superhero In You - NYSCATE 2016

ASIDE

Other eye-opening sessions were engaging the writing process using Google Apps, WeVideo, and Recap with Megan Hugg ( @Megan Hugg ) and Lindsey Peet ( @LindsMariePeet ); liberating students from paper using ePortfolios with Betsy Hardy ; and tapping the lesser-known features of Google with Carol LaRow ( @larowc ).

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Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. Indeed, Anya stated they educators are “fumbling” on qualitative assessment so far. Testing tools aren’t very good now. THE PARTICIPANTS TAKE OVER.

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Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. Assessment becomes impersonal. ” Gardner responded by explaining that currency is based on social faith.

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Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. Assessment becomes impersonal. ” Gardner responded by explaining that currency is based on social faith.

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This Week's Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sebastian Grady, COO of Altus Learning, will share stories from companies that are using video to capture critical knowledge throughout their global organizations. link] EPORTFOLIO COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE Thu 28 Oct 07:00PM New York / Thu 28 Oct 11:00PM GMT / Fri 28 Oct 09:00AM Sydney Coach Carole.