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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

Neo LMS

It wasn’t only a means of continuing to help students progress academically but to show them compassion, boosting their confidence in themselves and the future. Online learning bloomed, students helped each other, the community contributed with knowledge, moral and financial support, and social interaction was kept alive.

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The EDEN interviews: Stefan Hrastinski

Learning with 'e's

I have had the privelege to interview many great thinkers in the education field, some of which appear elsewhere on this blog. At the conference his key theme was one to one online learning. We also spent some time debating the evolution and trajectory of MOOCs and their significance for the future of education.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

GoConqr

Educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers if they want to keep their students engaged. “To To win student attention, educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers.” Mobile learning. The most common device among students is the smartphone. GoConqr Click To Tweet.

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Welcome Your Participants Home | 3 Keys to Quality Online Course Design

The PL2C Blog

While it seems ridiculous that such design decisions would be made in the physical space, we have all experienced an online learning website or course that left us with the same kind of feeling this Bed & Breakfast. Online instructional design is much like interior design. Key 2 | Make it Flow. ” [link].

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. In 2015, former Star-Ledger education reporter Bob Braun posted a screenshot to his blog of an email by a New Jersey superintendent.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Udacity , an Online Learning Start-Up, Offers Tech Job Trials.” Here’s the blog post from Udacity on Blitz, as well as one announcing it was opening shop in Saudi Arabia. of Cincinnati Police Officer.”