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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners).

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A Case For Flipping Learning—Without Videos

Edsurge

Barba’s approach to flipping is different—nearly excluding video entirely (with the exception of one or two videos across the semester). That’s one of the reasons why the professor also hosts the course for free online via Open edX, the massive open online course provider’s free and open-source platform.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. Video, of course, enables other innovations. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

Not just the loss of Seymour Papert and Prince and David Bowie and Phife Dawg and Harper Lee and Gwen Ifill and Alan Rickman and Gene Wilder and Ursula Franklin and Scott Erik Kaufman and Jerome Bruner and Elie Wiesel and Alvin Toffler and Leonard Cohen (and many more), but the grief and the pain that stems from these and so many other losses.

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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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