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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher

From degrees to certificates, some schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are creating legitimate digital copies of important documents so that students and professionals can conveniently pull them at any time when needed. This year, educational institutions are using blockchain for accessible record keeping. AR & VR.

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Crowdfunding Meets Webinar: How One Organization Uses Slack to Tackle Global Challenges

Edsurge

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. To facilitate this, we’ve landed on a new format for synchronous online learning that’s a mashup of a webinar and crowdfunding platform.

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Free or Low-Cost Resources for PD in Distance Learning

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Distance Learning with Common Sense (free) In response to the coronavirus pandemic and the challenges of distance learning, Common Sense Education is hosting a weekly webinar with educators from across the country. The webinars cover a range of topics and can be watched live or viewed later on the YouTube channel.

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Reflecting On My Visit to Saint Stephen’s College in Australia: The Learning Spaces #flipclass #edtech

techieMusings

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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

Edsurge

The report documenting the origins of Unmudl notes that “there is significant opportunity for colleges to gain enrollment within the noncredit space,” especially among working adults who want a job, not necessarily a degree. “The colleges didn’t want to feel defensive about that. Some of these courses are high-end, valuable real estate.”

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Reflecting On My Visit to Saint Stephen’s College in Australia: The Learning Spaces #flipclass #edtech

techieMusings

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.