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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

Flipped classes. The flipped classroom allows students to acquire new concepts at home via engaging videos, online courses, or even game-based learning. Thus, more classroom time can go toward communication, debate, teamwork, and other group activities that support social learning. . Ratings and reviews .

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Turning your face-to-face class into an online course [Part 1]

Neo LMS

Breaking down this project into smaller steps, and following each one with patience and tenacity will yield a great e-learning course, which will stand you — and your students — in good stead for many semesters to come. Step 3: Choose an e-Learning course format. Very fancy terms for really quite simple concepts.

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Turning your face-to-face class into an online course

Neo LMS

Breaking down this project into smaller steps, and following each one with patience and tenacity will yield a great e-learning course, which will stand you — and your students — in good stead for many semesters to come. Step 3: Choose an e-Learning course format. Very fancy terms for really quite simple concepts.

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How Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Highlights the Hybrid, ‘Omnichannel’ Future of Higher Ed

Edsurge

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms. Earlier this month, M.I.T.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

Setting very clear expectations around those things, norming and setting the goals and rules as a group so that everyone buys in is super-important. We do hybrid classrooms. We do flipped classrooms. So they’ll still be in groups and teams. So this 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate is very alarming.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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