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Make your LMS a social learning platform

Ask a Tech Teacher

Vivek Singh, education professional and contributor to Ask a Tech Teacher, has some interesting ideas on using your native LMS as a social learning platform. We inadvertently learn from our daily social interactions, with most of our informal learning happens through online sources of information. Back to the basics.

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For the Edtech Innovation Today’s Learners Need, Look Not to Companies, But to Campuses

Edsurge

When we focus our attention with laser precision on the edupreneurs who start new companies as the primary source of change, what do we miss? Much like slide projectors once replaced chalk as top-of-the-line educational tools, today’s intrapreneurs aim to shift our dependence on legacy technologies such as the standard LMS.

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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

However, if you want them to use the school LMS or other online tools while you are not using it at all, why should they do that? Read more: 3 reasons why you should use a school LMS to deliver PD for teachers. Schools should follow the example of companies, and offer teachers more opportunities for PD. Give timely feedback.

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The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Britt: In my classes, I’m using strictly a Blackboard LMS and I’m using Twitter, which I felt was a less onerous use of social media for classroom conversations. You have to prove to me that it’s worth using Facebook, or any social media, for that matter. You and I have both been in social media now for a decade.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc. A grim future for today’s providers of HE?

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4 Steps towards digital wellness for students

Neo LMS

At the same time, social media platforms can have a good or bad impact on mental health depending on how they are used. Communicate these things directly if you are using an LMS that has parent accounts. Did you notice any improvements in sleep, socialization etc.? How much time did you spend without social media?

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Metaverse–Education Game-changer

Ask a Tech Teacher

Once completed, it can be shared through the app, with a link, by posting to some social media, or by uploading to a class LMS (learning management system). Once the experience is completed, publish to Facebook, Twitter, an LMS, or share the link. Your experience can include 360? You also get a QR code to activate it.

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