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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

Edsurge

If you offer an online course that people can work through at their own pace (asynchronously), it often helps to have a series of “live” or synchronous events that students can collectively tune in to during a course. Online courses generally require a great deal of intrinsic motivation to complete.

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How Nontraditional Educators Will Influence Digital Learning #DLNchat

Edsurge

Several #DLNchat-ters described the importance of project-based learning opportunities through employee partnerships. Employers can provide industry skills students require, real world case studies, opportunities for collaborative learning through projects, real world expertise, and input into to student sills acquisition,” said Jim Hounslow.

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What If Schools Viewed Outdoor Learning as ‘Plan A’?

Edsurge

“I’m heartbroken for the impossible situation families have been put in, especially families with no resources, going to schools that don’t have the luxury of fancy online learning or giant schoolyards or under-crowded classrooms,” Latané says. In June, the group mobilized. Some could fit a dozen or more, Teller says.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning.

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