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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

I decided to base my doctoral thesis on them: “ Tinkering in K–12: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Makerspaces in Schools as an Application of Constructivist Learning.”. The constructivist approach can be difficult for teachers and students because it is so different from the traditional classroom routine. Where is the learning?

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EdSurge HigherEd Welcomes Jeff Young

Edsurge

EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! But as it turns out, massive online classes are still with us—my wife and I are slowly making our way through a philosophy MOOC from the University of Copenhagen. Still print books and magazines. So what happened here? Stay tuned.

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29 Sessions to Watch During This Year's SXSW EDU

Edsurge

Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. Moth vets Chris De La Cruz, Crystal Duckert and Tim Manly will speak on social justice, hip-hop in learning, teachers’ feelings and more.

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Why Students Can’t Write — And Why Tech is Part of the Problem

Edsurge

In fact, for years he edited one of the most popular humor magazines on the Internet, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — a more literary version of the The Onion. A lot of it is based on my reflection of my experience learning to write as a young person sort of before the era of standardized assessments and accountability. Even Fitbits?

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Silicon Valley's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress. AllLearn was short for Alliance for Lifelong Learning.

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

Edsurge

He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. Michael Wesch “We started with the idea of, ‘what does anthropology look like when it’s not tied down to a classroom,’” says Wesch. “It

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