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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” colleges, but that has grown to more than 10,000 today.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

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Stephen Downes , senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and co-creator of the MOOC, began with an overview of the predictive process, saying it “isn’t magic, but it’s not mechanical either.” Love is the orientation that can move us from systemically decomplexifying education to embracing its richness.”

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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

TeachThought - Learn better.

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture. We shall see. And iTunesU.

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Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform instructional design

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This approach to online learning has served to help new-to-online learners navigate the online course, learn to use the most common learning management system (LMS) tools, and interact with their classmates in ways that have modeled the traditional classroom.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. What are your views on MOOCs? Unported License.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go!