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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

Edsurge

Has the ubiquity of social media given plagiarism new life? Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. And in her book My Word!, Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels.

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Looking Back At 2011 And Looking Forward To 2012

The Web20Classroom

One of the most useful examples I saw this year was at a Moodle conference where in the digital conference guide was a QR next to each session. More Social Networking- This all boiled down to the continued growth of using Social Media and social networks for learning.

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Live Thursday, February 2nd - Panel on Personal Learning Profiles

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Now with multiple opportunities to network using social media and join various online communities, teachers and learners are confused. She has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy, technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others.

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10 Ways To Naturally Support Teacher Collaboration

TeachThought - Learn better.

Most schools now have online learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, and Edmodo are just a few. This week I’ve been reading Bruce MacFarlane’s “ Teaching with Integrity: The Ethics of Higher Education Practice ” (2004), a book I’ve been meaning to read for years. Create a social group just for collaborating teachers.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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This Week's Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

[link] ET@LKING: RETRIBALIZING, LITERARY STYLE: VIRTUAL BOOK CLUBS AND BOOKCASTS (AUSTRALIA SERIES) Wed 27 Oct 05:00AM New York / Wed 27 Oct 09:00AM GMT / Wed 27 Oct 07:00PM Sydney Anne Mirtschin. It uses Mahara as its open source ePortfolio platform, working in tandem with Moodle, the open source learning management system.

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10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

Nik Peachey

In the initial rush to get learning online many organisations got themselves a Moodle platform and then attached a whole load of PDFs and.docs, added some forums and the odd video clip and called it an online course. You can easily pull in comments from Facebook, Twitter or Google searches as well as a range of other social media sources.

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