ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Have you ever felt that the traditional classroom structure we’ve all grown used to is a bit too limiting for the today’s day and age? Below you’ll find professional insight into: What is a flipped classroom approach? What challenges will you face within a flipped classroom approach? So what does this mean?

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before. Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

TeachDoNow is a free, collaborative learning experience offered by KQED this summer in partnership with Educator Innovator and the National Writing Project. using social media tools. The goals of this MOOC are to: Engage participants in relevant and important conversation around issues critical to 21st century learning.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Looking to learn something new this summer? Maybe you want to develop your personal learning network on social media, read a few new books , or take a course alongside other educators. Thanks to technology, we can take learning online and collaborate with educators around the country and the world. Summer 2017.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

And we also mulled over thorny emerging issues, such as the role social media plays in designing our lives, and concerns about the corporatization of education. MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We have previously explored a number of learning theories, new learning technologies, concepts around crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and user generated content, Web 2.0, mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for 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.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is the fourth blog post in my series on the future of learning and technology. What will be the future of school classrooms? It is unlikely that we will see the demise of the classroom in the next decade. Cuban is very sceptical of online courses, and presumably his sceptiscism also embraces MOOCs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Learn more at ed.unc.edu/meite, on IG @UNCmeite , and Twitter @unc_Meite. Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

So I started asking around, bugging individuals and querying social media. They want to create a learning experience to introduce people to a topic they’re passionate about. Google Classroom – this has the advantage of familiarity. Udemy – the MOOC provider may let users create classes there.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. We recorded micro-teaches - usually a 10 minute lesson - and then played back the footage to the students so they could see and hear themselves and learn from the experience. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace. The future?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says.

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ProfHacker

MAY 28, 2015

[ Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Fisher suggests that one of the interesting side-effects of what he did was serendipitous learning by students not in his class who overheard and audited some of their conversations. –@JBJ.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom. This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . by Terry Heick.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 17, 2014

Our first-ever Learning Revolution Conference kicks off this coming Monday, April 20th, online and free, with a terrific set of keynote and distinguished speakers and a full day of conference sessions on Thursday, April 24th. Our theme for this conference is "What Are We Learning About Learning?" The schedule is below.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This series is meant to serve in-depth exploration of the events of the past year and an analysis of how these events shape the way in which we imagine and prepare for the future of teaching and learning. Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

The latest, MEDSKL , aims to provide comprehensive medical content for use inside and outside the classroom. I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. Our goal was to create digital content that appeals to various learning styles—text-based, auditory, and visual,” Sharma explains.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In recent years, education has evolved to the point where learning can take place anywhere and at any time, usually beyond the walls of the traditional learning space. What are the challenges of these new learning environments? What are the issues we need to address to make new learning environments a success? GMT (21.00

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

And he thinks that the writing students do for their Instagram accounts and social media is actually great. 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. Check out details and RSVP here. Even Fitbits?

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). The central tenet of heutagogy is that people inherently know how to learn.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

But I’ve purposefully called this series “trends” because I like to imagine it helps defang some of the bulleted list of crap that other publications churn out, claiming that this or that product is going to “change everything” about how we teach and learn. Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” It was a nightmare.’”

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In the wider educational sense, autonomy has connotations of choice, including decisions about what one learns, where one learns it, and at what pace it is learnt. If the current trends continue, we can expect to see personalised learning finally realised, and any time, any place learning becoming a reality for millions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 10, 2012

The Learning 2.0 Learning 2.0 It is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on rethinking teaching and learning in the age of the Internet. Subject strands include changes in the classroom, in student learning, in teacher personal and professional growth, in schools, and in pedagogy.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 18, 2015

With increased pressure on classroom spaces, many departments are moving courses online. A number of ProfHacker posts have looked at aspects of this: Doug Ward has talked about the perils of online teaching , Michelle Moravec shared lessons from a MOOC , and Jason shared his summer of teaching online.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 10, 2018

The focus is often “how do I get technology into the classroom” as opposed to starting with, “How do I make learning better and deeper for those I serve?” Deep learning though should be everywhere. TIt is why I have focused on innovation (new and better ways) in learning. Don’t add.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. These tasks are perfect for learning across the curriculum and especially for librarian-led learning. Social Media Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. She — and I recognize that teachers aren't always female, but the profession is certainly feminized — is alone in a classroom of other people's children, after all.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 13, 2017

Gaming: many examples of people using games for learning, or gamification for public good (public health, for one). Social media: various projects making use of it, including having students write to Twitter in a new language, or inviting Chinese students in another country to use WeChat to improve their morale.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Or, as Aneesa Davenport, Social Media & Analytics Manager for EdSurge, suggested, perhaps give them a periodic “check-up?” Ask students to bring examples from the real world into the classroom.” Join the Digital Learning Network to stay up to date on all events and the latest news for highered digital learning leaders!

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. We have come a long way.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is appealing a lower court’s ruling that it must repay $60 million to the state of Ohio as it cannot document students “attended” its online charter school. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

They've always been encouraged to speak their minds, to be authentic, to offer their opinions in the classroom—even in K-12—and certainly by the time they get to college. And so they have those life-long learning skills. By combining what they're learning through the liberal arts and being able to, say, read a balance sheet.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Let’s see if 2016 doesn’t see more tv-studio-style classrooms.

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