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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Video, of course, enables other innovations.

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EdSurge HigherEd Welcomes Jeff Young

Edsurge

And Jeff's also served as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, teaching a course on multimedia storytelling. EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! The hype was definitely overblown (I’m looking at you Thomas Friedman). So what happened here?

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

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In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. The Christensen Institute clarifies that “the Rotation model includes four sub-models: Station Rotation, Lab Rotation, Flipped Classroom, and Individual Rotation.”

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The whitepaper itself seems to advocate a position that schools would be more effective, and students better served, if they were more free from government involvement — more free to innovate and reform themselves, with a flipped classroom approach being the foremost example of reform. I actually do not disagree with this idea.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

So we started Versal to really allow anybody to create online courses, assignments, homework assignments, and so on, and really make it as easy as it is to build a PowerPoint. You drag them in the canvas, and you build your courses or the assignment that way. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. The Flipped Classroom". The problem with the “flipped classroom” is less the pedagogy per se than the touting, once again, of this as “the real revolution,” as Techcrunch did.

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