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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. These are probably the best you can ever find online. This is a work in progress.

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So I'm Taking a MOOC.

EdTechSandyK

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. The course is offered through Coursera , a known online learning platform which I have heard and read good things about. So far, so good!

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On interactions and scalability in online learning

Mark Smithers

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction.

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On interactions and scalability in online learning

Mark Smithers

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change. .

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. Athletics director, head coach ordered to each pay $100,000.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again. Peter Thiel.

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