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What does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade

Linways Technologies

But with Google and wiki at their side, your students are better equipped with instant information at their fingertips. So be current and accurate on what you teach and try refreshing your knowledge base every now and then so that you won’t miss out on important advancements and new discoveries.

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The Future of MOOCs Must Be Decolonized

Edsurge

such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. This excludes vast amounts of people, and the potential for a truly pluralistic global knowledge base vanishes to colonial and imperial languages and cultures. The top five unsurprisingly included Coursera, edX, Udacity and FutureLearn, with a new contender, XutangX from China.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel and his team used the 40,000 some odd questions that students had asked in previous versions of the course to build out Jill’s knowledge-base. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. It is fair, however, to blame “Montessori 2.0” The TED Talk.

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