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New learning environments

Learning with 'e's

Our final #EDENchat of 2015 focused on new learning environments, namely MOOCs, flipped classrooms and blended learning methods. Those who participated shared their experiences of MOOCs and flipped learning both as teachers and as learners. Generally the Twitter timeline was fast moving and thought provoking.

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What Do You Call It When Colleges Turn Their Research Powers On Their Own Practices?

Edsurge

Except that analogy doesn’t really work, because education isn’t a product, and most professors bristle at comparisons to the corporate sector. Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs.

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The Innovator’s Mindset—A Blockbuster Lesson from George Couros

Fractus Learning

Trust me, he’ll like this comparison!) George has a few more follower Twitter followers than me; well, 141 000 more to be exact! If you need proof: last year I participated in an Innovator’s Mindset MOOC (#IMMOOC) conducted by George and several of his high-profile colleagues.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. Certainly these questions have been raised many times in the last few years, and once again featured, this time as a topic of conversation at a recent Twitter based #EDENChat. We have come a long way.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. Claims on Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? “ Hacked Twitter Accounts a New Headache for Schools,” Education Week’s Ben Herold reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ( A good thread on Twitter in response.). I’d love to see a comparison between Pluralsight and Lynda.com.). ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s coding bootcamp news in the venture capital section below. ” (Psst.