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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. Sure, having specialized software for learning is great, but these will at least start you off on the right foot. Sure, having specialized software for learning is great, but these will at least start you off on the right foot.

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10 Excellent Christmas Gift Ideas for Dad

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It’s a time for learning, exploring, and creating new memories. Or, if he’s into learning new things, a subscription to an audiobook service or a curated collection of non-fiction books in areas he’s curious about could be great. It’s a unique way to support lifelong learning and exploration.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Silicon Valley's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress. AllLearn was short for Alliance for Lifelong Learning.

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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

Edsurge

However, since 2012—when MOOCs gained widespread recognition —instructional designers have made significant strides in designing scalable learning experiences that people successfully finish. If your goal is having more students finish a learning experience, require students to demonstrate upfront commitment.

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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

Edsurge

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. A recent study from Columbia University’s Teachers College on EdX and Coursera courses indicated that their MOOC certificate programs had completion rates of 15 percent or less.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” Learning objects. Learning portals.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. DadaABC.com (English language learning): $608.9 Coursera (online education): $210.1 Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 Yuanfudao (tutoring): $250 million.

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