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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Through creating professional connections for instance by attending conferences, webinars, workshops, etc, you get to tap into the expertise and knowledge of your crowd allowing you to access insider insights that would be hard to access otherwise.

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Wow Them with the Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21st!

Teacher Reboot Camp

A teacher toolkit , animation, video, webinar, and activities by PBS Learning Media. Take the free Coursera online course about the 2017 Solar Eclipse. Educational materials and videos for all grade levels and subjects by the American Astronomical Society. Simulate an eclipse in the classroom by NASA.

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How Voice-Enabled Technology is Changing the Contours of Higher Education

Edsurge

We’ve been really excited about collaborating with edtech developers—we now have skills available to customers from Kickboard, ParentSquare, Coursera, Blackboard and Canvas. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students. How long does it take?

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With New Online Marketplace, Community Colleges Hope to Better Compete With For-Profits

Edsurge

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Community colleges are staking a claim in the territory of online course marketplaces.

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2U Buys edX for $800M, In Surprise End to Nonprofit MOOC Provider Started by MIT and Harvard

Edsurge

edX had fallen behind rivals like Coursera, a similar platform founded by Stanford University professors, in fundraising and reach, though it still boasts 35 million users and more than 3,000 courses. Today, the universities announced that they are selling edX to one of those for-profit providers for $800 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” Time to buy more TV ads, Khan Academy and Coursera! ” The company in question: edX. Heckuva job.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). Via Class Central : “ FutureLearn ’s New Pricing Model Limits Access to Course Content After the Course Ends.”