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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Robert has held various leadership and instructional roles in the field of education, with a focus on online and blended learning. In October 2019, they received a certification in Learning Articulate Storyline 360 from LinkedIn.

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The Pandemic Pushed Colleges to Record Lectures. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.

Edsurge

And it’s not always clear who owns and controls recorded lectures that are hosted and shared through university or third-party edtech systems. The University of Michigan has experience navigating intellectual property rights questions thanks in part to its prolific partnership with open-course provider Coursera, Pendse says.

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8 teacher-loved edtech tools to try in 2017

eSchool News

There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of apps and online edtech tools for that! To help you get a little bit more innovative in the coming academic year, here is a list of proven-effective edtech tools that may be highly useful in the classroom. For Online Courses/Blended Learning. Explore and enjoy!

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What does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade

Linways Technologies

Edtech Tools and platforms are getting better in managing and simplifying education as we speak, and it’s only a matter of time before they become mainstream. Blended learning and online education are also gaining popularity which is why having digital literacy for teachers is crucial. Again, tools will make everything simpler.

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Can Fluent City, Backed By $2.5M in Funding, Build a Modern Culture School?

Edsurge

Blended learning is the way to go for them, Rohrbach says. “I I kind of see [us] as the anti-Coursera,” he says. Fluent City and its teachers use proprietary 200-page textbooks as guides for language classes offered at seven different levels. You don’t want to be by yourself in front of a computer.”.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’. Knowledge pills, robo-graders, brain implants and other dystopian edtech. Digital Learning Day cometh. From Yale to Coursera. Related stories. Live from SXSWEdu: #NewSATs or No SATs?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” ” More via Techcrunch.