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Does Innovative Teaching Work? A New Effort Aims To Help Faculty Find Out.

Edsurge

Colleges are under immense pressure to improve their outcomes for their own survival, he says, noting as one example the financial crisis at Hampshire College, where his daughter went to college. Trying to change the culture of teaching at colleges is a tall order. Can sharing projects and practices possibly do that?

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

MOOCs are just one outcome of these and, in their current form, they are largely a transitory product of their time. Incidentally, this power imbalance is one of the reasons mass adoption of online learning in higher education continues to fail. More new organisations will emerge providing high quality online learning.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

MOOCs are just one outcome of these and, in their current form, they are largely a transitory product of their time. Incidentally, this power imbalance is one of the reasons mass adoption of online learning in higher education continues to fail. More new organisations will emerge providing high quality online learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. Course Signals. Students who completed courses were more likely to complete courses.) Crested Pigeon.

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