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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

Offer a book study on Invent to Learn (the authors have created a study guide). Teachers can engage in a meaningful way by joining a book study massive online open course, on books such as The Innovator’s Mindset , Learner-Centered Innovation and Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning.

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Twitter and the death of distance

Learning with 'e's

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. I have co-authored several books with colleagues whom I have never met, where social media tools were used to co-create the content across the distance. It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

Edsurge

A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year How do you win Faculty Member of the Year 13 times in a row? Well, at least partially open.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 1

Bryan Alexander

Our online book club begins! The authors adds his own role in contributing to the #change11 MOOC, plus his initiation of the George Tech MOOC-driven computer science program. DeMillo sounds several themes as he takes us through this recent, familiar history, starting with opposition between MOOC-creators and institutions.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1. This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. It’s not entirely a rosy account. Kindle location 1093).

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Revolution in Higher Education: A Social Contract

Bryan Alexander

DeMillo sounds several themes as he takes us through this recent, familiar history, starting with opposition between MOOC-creators and institutions. … The major theme in this chapter is accessibility. Miscellaneous notes: MOOCs seem less important at this point of the book than they did during the first few chapters.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 10

Bryan Alexander

In contrast is the story of one MOOC, which exemplifies how easily those projects can see their reputation punctured. DeMillo starts off with stories about campuses resisting MOOCs, offering reasons why faculty rejected them. Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.),

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