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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. EdX and Microsoft made an experiment and everyone was taken aback by the outcomes. Read more about this here.

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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. EdX and Microsoft made an experiment and everyone was taken aback by the outcomes. Read more about this here.

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What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

iPad/iPad Mini, Nexus 7 , Nexus 9, Microsoft tablets (e.g., Google Drive (simple, but crude); Microsoft Word (probably a better choice, but it depends on what “ecology” students are plugged into); Zoho Docs. Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Excel. Email, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive. Asus Vivotab Note 8 ).

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Microsoft must’ve paid the big bucks to have this announced at the opening session: “ISTE and Microsoft collaborate to provide new school planning and professional learning resources.” Clair Smith.

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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. Apple sneers about this. Or not reckon with it, as the case may be.

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