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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

Neo LMS

Online learning bloomed, students helped each other, the community contributed with knowledge, moral and financial support, and social interaction was kept alive. Read more: Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills. When schools moved online, parents, teachers, and entire communities became contributors to learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! FutureLearn announced that two UK universities – the University of Leeds and the Open University – will offer MOOCs that will be accepted for college credit. For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” asks Edsurge.