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Learning Beyond The Classroom Walls

The Web20Classroom

I sat down at my laptop, went to Google and started searching. There have been correspondence courses for a number of years but these normally led to certificates and rarely led to actual degrees. Traditional colleges and universities are also facing a new generation of learning options through MOOCs. Everything was virtual.

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Reflecting On My Visit to Saint Stephen’s College in Australia: The Learning Spaces #flipclass #edtech

techieMusings

The learning spaces they have set up open up so many possibilities and opportunities for blended and differentiated instruction and individualized learning, meeting the needs of all different learning and personality styles. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing.

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Online Learning: Why Libraries Could Be the Key to MOOCs’ Success

MindShift

For all the promises of online courses disrupting education, completion rates are notoriously low. Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. In many cases, the librarians learned alongside students as they completed the course. “In

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Reflecting On My Visit to Saint Stephen’s College in Australia: The Learning Spaces #flipclass #edtech

techieMusings

The learning spaces they have set up open up so many possibilities and opportunities for blended and differentiated instruction and individualized learning, meeting the needs of all different learning and personality styles. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. November''s son is taking courses through edX and will get an associate''s degree from Harvard. Click here to see all of them.)

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

Hack Education

” Investors go to the event for private meetings. ” This happens all the time, of course, and not just at “business of education” conferences. ” (The Melbourne school was the site, over 25 years ago, of the first one-to-one laptop program ever.) They go to play golf. Fair enough.

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Learning at the Speed of Technology - David Jakes

EdTechSandyK

Notes from David Jakes Keynote Fall 2012 TCEA TECSIG Meeting October 4, 2012 Austin, Texas All resources posted at davidjakes.me Has been offering open online courses for 10 years. More students have successfully completed a course on circut design since it''s been online than in the 40 years of face-to-face only prior to that.