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

Edsurge

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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Khan Academy Has Inspired Imitations Across Disciplines. MEDKSL is the Latest.

Edsurge

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. In a lot of classrooms, our modules are becoming required learning,” Sharma says. “As

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Three GREAT (and Free) Virtual Conferences Where You Can Attend, Present, or Volunteer!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Library 2.012 ( [link] ) October 3 - 5, 2012 In its second year, the Library 2.012 conference is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. Huge thank to the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University, the founding conference sponsor!

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Learning Revolution Conference Schedule - Online and Free NEXT WEEK

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The LearningRevolution.com project has over 200 partner organizations and bridges schools, libraries, museums, and the work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. We''re still taking submissions for our May 1 Reinventing the Classroom conference here ! The schedule is below. Volunteer moderators--we need you.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Click here to see all of them.)

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Let’s see if 2016 doesn’t see more tv-studio-style classrooms. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post. Even academics. From non-edutech trends.

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GlobalEdCon 2013 Day Four + Helping the New Grassroots Projects

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

PROJECT: Student Visits-Exchanges-Collaborations PROJECT: MOOCs PROJECT: Google Helpouts PROJECT: Uniting Around One Social Cause PROJECT: International Co-Teaching A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5).

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