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What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?

Edsurge

And she makes the case for why free online courses like hers—which are known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs—might still lead to a revolution in higher education, even though the hype around them has died down. Some people might even wonder whether MOOCs are even still around since you don’t hear much about these courses today.

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5 Essential Practices for Designated and Integrated ELD

The CoolCatTeacher

They have a new classroom management tool called Collections. The new classroom management features in Metaverse are free to try with promo code ARforEDU. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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VHS Learning Partners with Continental Han Feng Network Technology to Develop Chinese Language Program

eSchool News

Hua Zhang, the team’s lead subject matter expert developing course lessons, brings substantial classroom experience, having taught Chinese to high school students in China and the United States for over 25 years. VHS Learning courses are designed from the start to be conducted using online best practices.

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Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

Hack Education

As school buildings were shuttered, the district turned to the radio to replace classroom instruction. As with so many new technologies forced into the classroom, the experiment deepened many teachers' "feelings of insecurity and fear that radio, this new technology, might one of these days take away their jobs."

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

I’m in good company, as Keith Devlin is the first on that list and Veritasium’s Derek Muller is in there as well. What I do have issues with, is the single-minded insistence in this paper that Khan Academy is the exact same thing as the flipped classroom. I actually do not disagree with this idea.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

The event brings together a mix of participants from different parts of education — teachers, administrators, and publishers in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Of course, it’s hard for colleges to tell which new education products are effective in the classroom. “Absolutely not,” said Mr. Pittinsky.

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