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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. An example?

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Why Continuing Education Programs Are Poised to Become Hubs of Innovation

Edsurge

MOOCs are not the only ones that offer on-demand learning today. The good news is that many continuing education programs are building on their legacies and stepping up.

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What the Shortcomings of EdTech Mean for Improving Distance Learning and Schools

MindShift

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Relationships are the foundations of learning,” he said.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. Trends affecting the adoption of technology in schools. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition). CHALLENGES.

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Picking on great education and technology myths

Bryan Alexander

Then I asked participants to think about lessons learned from puncturing that myth. Myth 4: MOOCS will transform everything. This elicited the first pushback, as some people wrote in to celebrate their use of MOOCs for personal professional development. One chimed in with admiration for the Modern Poetry MOOC.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Perhaps the disappearance (and reported murder) of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi doesn’t seem like an education technology story. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). But it matters.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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