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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. But content is not top on your list.”

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Practical Applications to Individualize and Personalize Learning

A Principal's Reflections

One of the most cost-effective means to create a more personalized and individualized learning experience for students is through the use of OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC's). This is taken into account when they are assessed for their work. The work was assessed according to the IOCS Rubric.

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In Evolving World of Microcredentials, Students, Colleges and Employers Want Different Things

Edsurge

That's an interesting dynamic where so much of this is at this intersection of not just higher ed or post-secondary education world, but it's also what's happening in terms of employer training. We've been doing that for the last 40 years—with Prior Learning Assessment and with ACE credit recommendations.

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Rice U. offering free AP Physics online prep course

eSchool News

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. “The effective application of technology has enormous significance for the future of higher education, and it is important for Rice to push the boundaries of what is possible with a MOOC,” Levander said. “This isn’t a typical MOOC.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? Students were therefore unable to sit their A Levels, the exams that are the culmination of secondary education there. Every student is guilty until the algorithm proves her innocence.

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

But it may be enough to know the report exists and can be freely downloaded and doom-scrolled to assess the thinking of dozens of experts. Postsecondary and Secondary Credentials ” report. The nonprofit tallies 967,734 unique secondary and post-secondary credentials in the United States. Credential Engine: “ Counting U.S.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. The company has raised some $77.5