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Turning your face-to-face class into an online course [Part 3]

Neo LMS

There is a small issue we need to briefly look at: Definitions. One is a Learning Management System (LMS) and the other Learning Content Management System (LCMS). A good LMS will accept videos, pictures, Office and Google docs. Learn more about SCORM here. Personalized learning paths.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. At the same time, Bezos’ Montessori experiment will teach him how to operate in-person pre-schools. Public education is, by its very definition, political.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

What Students Say And because of the experience students had during COVID-19 lockdowns, when most teaching was online, many students feel they learned how to teach themselves by just Googling. We know that this is what was happening … with learning during the pandemic, but now we're all back together again. “A

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. Its definition of what it means to be “rural” is beyond that which most Americans will ever come to know. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” “ Can personalized learning prevail? ” asks ZDNet.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’ll definitely bring back the coal jobs. For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.” “Try Google.” Immigration and Education.