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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

Edsurge

But there’s hope—the Stanford researcher completed a 500-paper lit review with professors Linda-Darling Hammond and Shelley Goldman to identify five actionable tips to provide equitable digital learning opportunities to low-income students. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Blended learning.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Overall, the rise of online learning — from MOOCs to Khan Academy — makes “blendedlearning that combines computer and live instruction feel normal to students. But the surveys put parent satisfaction in the 88th to 96th percentiles. And it will follow them into the workplace and throughout their careers.

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Online Education: Will it Make Us Smarter? #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Adult learning space, higher Ed, and K-12 all have different needs so they create different markets. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content. A: Udemy has a few professors who use their online courses as part of blended learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Make MOOCs great again.” Via Tony Bates : “A survey of distance education in Brazil.” Via Times Higher Education : “Students on courses that combine online delivery with face-to-face interaction are the least satisfied in Times Higher Education’s US student survey.” Is that possible?

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” The company runs “blended learning” schools in South Africa. ” Talking to them, I guess, is not an option.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. “Can Blended Learning Improve Equity in One of Nation’s Most Diverse Districts?” ” asks Edsurge. Disclosure alert.).