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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

Edsurge

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. Simmons: Part of my school’s curriculum is a required first year seminar to make sure you're not just drowning in 400-person lectures. It was very social media-like in its interface.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions. Social media is something higher ed is ambivalent about.

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