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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. The presentation of material is adapted to students’ needs based on their responses to questions and tasks.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. The presentation of material is adapted to students’ needs based on their responses to questions and tasks.

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The future of education in 2016, from the sharing economy to BYOD: my Future Trends Forum recording and materials

Bryan Alexander

This led to a lot of audience participation, and involved more presentation that we’ve seen so far in the Forum. I held back from presenting as much as I could, in order to let participants discuss the issues with each other. Speaking of MOOCs, we discussed the use of Facebook to support better sociability in MOOCs.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

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edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Swivl - Apparatus that lets you use an iPad to video record a lecture or presentation. Moves the camera to follow presenter around the room.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

If these are accurate statistics, they present a significant challenge to schools, colleges and universities. Institutes that discourage the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement may be perceived by their students as anachronistic.

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

Learning with 'e's

Present-day students, who interact with a steady stream of digital media throughout the day, are generally unsurprised by video in the classroom; if anything, they expect it. 2017) Can one-to-one initiative and BYOD in schools increase student engagement? Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace. Parlour, A. Steckner, S.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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With an increased presence of BYOD and 1:1 programs in classrooms, schools today are faced with the challenge of transforming traditional learning spaces to seamlessly connect pedagogy, technology, and space. We will see more and more educational MOOC platforms to replace classroom training, as they afford users universal access to knowledge.