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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. EBooks and audiobooks are key in this regard.

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

Linways Technologies

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. Instead of curriculum-based instruction, education will become more learner-centered in the coming years.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

Colleges are now at a crossroad to decide whether to continue with the broad spectrum of knowledge based education, or to shift to a skill based learning where they train students to learn faster and more efficiently so that they can be more responsive to the changes of the industry and have options in the future.

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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. Coursera has raised over $310 million. Hundreds of millions of dollars of investment were funneled into these (and other) MOOC providers.

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