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Forget Unpaid Internships. Instead, Colleges Should Offer Work-Based Courses.

Edsurge

Colleges have already come up with a model for this by offering work-based courses , which pair students with businesses and other organizations to solve real-world problems. Work-based learning courses benefit employers, too, more than the traditional standalone summer internship model. Few can choose the latter.

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

As a result, an online course was created with the help of Participate. Below you will see how the course is structured as well as learner outcomes. Course Description The Learning Transformed course is designed to support your classroom, district or school's transformation efforts! Anyone can register HERE.

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3 Ways To Improve Student Success With Strong Course Design

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. Some underestimate the intensity of the course and complain after.

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#EDvice: Entry Points for Change

A Principal's Reflections

One of the biggest obstacles to overcome is zeroing in on compelling reasons to change that will lead to better outcomes. I shared the following on social media recently: Entry points for change are crucial. Of course, there are also some challenges associated with using laptops in schools.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Learning online will also help us become better teachers and now is the perfect time to take an online course. So, in this blog post, I’m going to share 20 teaching areas that are relevant to distance learning and why these topics might be one you choose to take a professional development course to learn this summer.

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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

With things like social media marketing, if you printed a book this year, it might not be relevant next year,” she says. There are, of course, benefits to students’ pocketbooks when professors assign open course materials. Egan says creating and adapting open textbooks will likewise make college more nimble.

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Incorporating Social Media and Digital Citizenship in the First-Year Experience Course

Mistakengoal.com

Part of that program requires (nearly) all undergraduate students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and one of the resolutions updated some of the specific outcomes of that course. It’s important to note that FYS courses at my university come in many different flavors.