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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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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. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 million students. million students.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. There were no formalized links between the activities that they would do online and how they would be assessed in their roles offline.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. But visions of a world where every teacher and every student had an internet-connected device, and every student would get personalized assessments for learning, were still just that—visions.

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Punk learning

Learning with 'e's

For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). I would argue that these are 'punk' educators, whether they realise it or not.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. ” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). This is a great headline. Meanwhile on Campus.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.” Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Imperial College London has joined edX.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. See: the LMS, the MOOC. These unaccredited schools argue they’re best positioned to “ close the skills gap.”