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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

” Casey’s response: we have more information and expanded access to educational materials, but no increase in faculty productivity and no decrease in costs. Possiblye the FCC will extend E-rate funding to poorer areas. The question Casey asks is, how to get more value out of the LMS?

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Education always has been more than information dissemination or publishing, but now we have the tools, at low costs and globally available to make participatory learning possible.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Everyone is invited to participate in this FREE forum designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please ?join We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. join the Library 2.0

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education) Using Scratch and Picoboards to teach "x", Maths and Science - Martin Levins, Director IT What''s The Connection?

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

Wired Campus

If you want to track your learners, if you want to see the progress of your learners, if you want to bring in the information from the quizzes into your learning-management systems, then you have to buy. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. So I think you’re focused on the right place. It’s frustrating.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”