The Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Last month, Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) published a study on the trends in Advanced Placement course offerings in public schools from 2000 to 2012. The data shows that from 2008 to 2012, the percentage of public schools offering AP courses declined from 79 percent to 74 percent, a backslide from the eight percent increase in schools offering AP courses eight years prior. Some districts, of course, have embraced this potential.

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GoConqr

MAY 2, 2017

Creating a Course: Why use supplementary material? When it comes to the ‘Create’ part of the 7 Cs of Learning Design most course creators will create original content for most of their course. Learn more about the GoConqr Course Builder tool.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 27, 2015

I am creating a curriculum for an Aircraft Design course for the high school level. Since it will be shared with many other people, I decided to do the organization in Google Drive, instead of Evernote like I usually do my course organization.

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The Christensen Institute

JULY 28, 2015

A La Carte courses—in which students’ teachers of record are online—are one of the fasted-growing blended-learning models in K–12 education and offer many students access to and flexibility within courses otherwise out of reach.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Google Course Builder is a new resource from Google that allows you to create your own online courses. Google used it to create their Power Searching with Google online course. It has all of the software and instructions for creating an online course. Your course can contain lesson materials, student activities, and assessments. There are also instructions for integrating other Google products into your course.

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The Christensen Institute

JUNE 16, 2015

Larry Taylor introduced a bill that would have removed barriers that block some students from accessing supplemental online courses offered through the Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN). To give credit where it’s due, Texas is one of only seven states that provide students with access to online learning options through a statewide Course Access program. TxVSN has a catalog of more than 89 different courses—including U.S. Take an advanced science course, for example.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2014

There are a lot of course management tools available for educators, including Blackboard and PowerSchool, that allow educators to do attendance, grading, post and organize resources and lessons, and interact with students. Schoology -Schoology is a free course management system for educators that allows them to manage their lessons, post resources and assignments, create quizzes, link to additional resources, conduct online courses, provide one-on-one help sessions and host discussions.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 2, 2015

The course is self-paced, consists of a series of videos and quizzes that take about an hour to complete. Teaching Digital Citizenship is a free, new tool that educators can use to keep kids safer online.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 26, 2017

But for all the sophistication of the Internet age, the idea of getting top quality college courses online for free, and using them for credits in the traditional college system, is only now being tested. Modern States Course Providers. Written by Steve Klinsky.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2016

In the summer of 2015, the district asked a technology teacher, a library media specialist, a math teacher, and a science teacher to create a STEM course that would be part of the students’ daily class schedule. eClassroom News STEM defined stem rotation model stem course

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Google has an excellent selection of free courses and training materials for Google Apps and more. ( They have just announced 5 new online courses for teachers and administrators on Google for Education that were designed by educators. New Courses include: Internet 101, Apps for Education, Gmail, Drive, Chrome and Chromebooks. You can find the new courses here: https://educourses.withgoogle.com/course This is a great resource for all educators.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 24, 2013

During a recent Learning Pool Live event in London, I posted the following message on Twitter: Move away from courses, towards events, experiences, challenges. Courses can be very expensive to develop and deliver. Can we do better than the course?

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Class Tech Tips

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

eCoach is an online platform that lets teachers turn lessons they’ve already created into online courses. Perfect for BYOD classrooms, eCoach makes it easy to share course material with students no matter what device they are using.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 8, 2016

As the start of the fall term approaches, many ProfHacker readers are designing or revising course syllabi. The federal definition of course credit hours assumes a minimum of “two hours of out-of-class student work per week for a semester hour.”

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 21, 2017

iPhones and Smartphones _ Miscellaneous Tools and Topics iot coursesForecasts for the growth of the Internet of Things (a.k.a. IoT or IoE, as in the Internet of Everything) suggest tens of billions of devices will be connected as spending grows to exceed a trillion.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

As part of our work ( Eduro that is ) Kim Cofino and Chrissy Hellyer have put together a 6 course parenting certificate program for parents who want to learn and understand the connected digital lives of teens today. Kim and Chrissy interviewed parents and teenagers for the course.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 30, 2016

Your business as a teacher is to create the best possible courses for your students. Too many teachers focus on the educational part of their courses — making the chocolate — and simply forget about, or even ignore the visual part — adding a nice packaging to it.

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ProfHacker

JULY 22, 2015

One of the things we haven’t done, though, is offer online courses on digital pedagogy–a new venture the journal Hybrid Pedagogy has taken with Digital Pedagogy Lab ! The course descriptions for both are tantalizing.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

50 Free Online Courses For Teachers: Spring 2015. Below is a list of 50 free online courses for teachers for Spring 2015, aggregated by Class Central. Education, Mini-Course III: Accountability and National Standards. Genetics and Society: A Course for Educators.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2016

The post The NEW Become a Google Certified Trainer E-Course is Here! My new e-course: Become a Google Certified Trainer is open for enrollment! The NEW E-Course is OPEN: Become a Google Certified Trainer! Watch the Latest Video to Learn All About the Course!

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The Christensen Institute

JUNE 4, 2015

On April 30, the House passed a bill to create a statewide Course Access program with a favorable vote of 110 to 40. To this end, Course Access programs can have substantial, positive effects on students’ learning outcomes. Consider, for example, these stories from students in nearby states where Course Access programs are available. All of these courses could easily be made available to every Missouri student through a statewide Course Access catalog.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

But when your course is riddled with misspellings and ill-placed imagery, all your students will lose their focus from your message, and run to other more beautiful things. A great course design will support your message in many subtle ways. A small thing can pass by unnoticed.

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FuelEd

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Since implementation in February 2011, more than 600 PASS program students have earned their high school diplomas and more than 2,000 credits have been recovered through online high school courses

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

So it stands to reason that using the term “smart” to describe the application of technology within college courses might have a similar connotation. Online courses are “smart,” one might assume, because they use technology to improve educational outcomes or, at least, create new efficiencies or extend the abilities of faculty and students. Yet, while technology exists in the world of higher education, it’s not clear that technology is actually making courses smarter.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Nano-Professional Development: 20 Quick Courses For Teachers by TeachThought Staff Professional development can come from a variety of sources–conversation, books, blogs, social media, YouTube, and more–courses, for example.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Maybe you want to develop your personal learning network on social media, read a few new books , or take a course alongside other educators. Below, we have collected some Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as open courseware, so you can choose your own learning adventure this summer.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 26, 2015

When teaching on-campus, the Mac or PC decision is usually made for me: a computer lab will be equipped with one or the other, and students in courses that involve digital production can be relied upon to have access to those labs.

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The study, “Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport: Doing Is Better than Watching for Learning From a MOOC,” looked at a group of Georgia students in a course called “ Introduction to Psychology as a Science.” Those in the MOOC-only course scored an average of 57 percent on the final. Those in the combined course scored an average of 66 percent. Distance Education MOOCs Online Courses Online Learning Teaching

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Innovation-based courses are a fun, challenging and effective way to provide personalized, cross-curricular pathways. Our district has implemented the Inventionland Innovation Course with great success. Here are the 9 reasons why today’s students love innovation-based courses: 1.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

This post is the second in a series of three, on how to create beautiful online courses. The first one was about colors , while the last one will explain the layout of a nice course page. Creating beautiful online courses with fonts. Font families can save your course.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But unlike Monopoly or Taboo, Fishman believes the plays and strategies in higher education courses are often poorly designed. He and his colleagues at U-M’s Gameful Learning Lab are working together to incorporate essential elements of well-designed games into courses. The lab has built an LMS called GradeCraft that allows faculty to structure and deliver courses like a game. “We

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 17, 2012

Udemy is a site that enables anyone to take and build courses online. It is free to sign up and there are both free and paid courses available. You can also create your own online course on the site. Students could also use it to create a short course as a class project.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 25, 2015

It’s sometimes a struggle to get students to carefully read course documents. As I prepared to teach our Technical Writing and Communication course this fall, I decided I wanted to emphasize document design and economy of language, two areas in which I felt my previous classes could improve.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” During his time helping students as a tech adviser in the library, Hussain said he saw the questions change over the course of the year.

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NPR Learning and Tech

APRIL 11, 2015

A new study of free, online college courses says that growth fell short of early expectations, as well as a pattern among users: mostly college-educated, including a surprising number of teachers. »

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 18, 2015

With increased pressure on classroom spaces, many departments are moving courses online. I’ve written here at ProfHacker about teaching online previously, but in that past experience I was teaching a very small synchronous online course.

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Management and Strategy issues in DIGITAL HIGHER E

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Most institutions had no more than a handful of online courses. Online education was largely a faculty-led effort; few university Strategic Plans included … Continue reading Taking Course Design Seriously (Finally) → Innovation Instructional Strategy When I first entered the field of online education back in 1997, the first 56.6 kps modems were appearing in homes.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 17, 2017

But this is felt when I opened a virtual library of online courses. Enrolling and paying for an online course is a little bit more challenging than deciding which snow cone to choose. Things to know before paying for online courses. How good are you with making decisions?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 25, 2016

April 25, 2016 Udemy is one of the best platforms where you can access a plethora of online courses. There are actually over 40.000 courses covering different subjects from programming and media to.read more. Free courses

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