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Tools for professional-looking digital portfolios

Neo LMS

Just to give a few examples, Khan Academy , Crash Course , and popular MOOC sites like Coursera and edX have started a revolution in education, making their own content or their partners’ content (especially higher university institutions on Coursera and edX) available for everyone. Read more: 6 Things you may not know about MOOCs.

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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. SPOCs help teachers implement the flipped classroom. But there’s a big journey from theory to practice.

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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. SPOCs help teachers implement the flipped classroom. But there's a big journey from theory to practice.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. .” Something something flipped classroom something something.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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