Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

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. But instead of using a tool like WebEx or GoToWebinar, we use Slack , a mobile messaging platform. Sourcing a Challenge.

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Perry Hewitt

MAY 22, 2015

Google is once again showing tweets in search results , starting with mobile. My guess is that Twitter native search will cater more to live Twitter consumption of breaking news or events. Now you can search for topics and hashtags directly within Google.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Among the education highlights: Republican VP candidate Mike Pence made up a name for the university hosting the event. Actually, I think that was the only education highlight. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update March 18th All of life is a constant education. The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. Don''t miss this opportunity to get involved with a great event! To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Ralph Tyler The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. The great majority of these events are free to attend. This event does have a cost, but if you register by November 1 you can save $10!

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 13, 2017

First, INTED was easily the most transnational conference for education that I’ve ever attended. This is way beyond any event I’ve seen in the US, and more representative than anything I’ve experienced in Europe. MOOCs: simply present in the ed tech space, without the hype crash America experienced.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 25th Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0 These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. The rise of video carried over into education. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. Conferences ran streaming video events.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 11, 2019

It's a professional community of educators interested in technology supported learning. I have been associated with the organisation and its various events, projects and people, since 1996. It was the first international education event I had ever attended, and I remember sharing the stage with Gilly Salmon and Sally Reynolds.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 22nd The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn.and change. The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. ISTE serves more than 100,000 education stakeholders throughout the world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 31, 2013

Also, teasers below for Connected Educator Month , an education film festival , and Revinventing K12. The response has been enthusiastic, and intriguingly from many traditional educators wanting to learn more or already serving homeschool students in some way. Proposals can made between now and September 30th.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. September 6th + 7th!

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the meantime, here's the title and abstract of my keynote: Technology Supported Learning: What has been, and what is yet to come In recent years education has been assailed by waves of new technologies, theories and practises. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Education Politics. Via Pacific Standard : “Department of Education to Investigate Alleged Discrimination in Richmond Schools.” “The Next Higher-Ed Funding Battle to Watch May Be in New Mexico ,” says The Chronicle of Higher Education. . WH Snapchat spells "Education" wrong.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via the Washington Post : “ Trump pitches $20 billion education plan at Ohio charter school that received poor marks from state.” More on Bill Clinton and Laureate Education in the for-profit higher ed section below. Elsewhere in Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts. I love education research.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Marcus to serve as Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Education Politics. From the Department of Education’s press release : “U.S. Secretary of Education Announces Chief of Staff and Additional Staff Hires.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Memos Focused on Improving Loan Servicing.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen: An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically cringe. Hint: “It’s mobile,” “We have a better UI,” and “It’s for millennials” are not the answers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 29, 2013

All of these events are free to attend. Because an online conference doesn''t have the physical and financial constraints (and sometimes the politics) of an in-person event, we can accept the great majority of presentation proposals and allow the audience to decide what they want to attend. (And Department of Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

Labs projects, designed to provide spaces for great conversations around education. as well as a special educational start-up "pitchfire" event. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 9, 2015

Barcelona - the home of Gaudi This year's EDEN annual summer conference kicks off in beautiful Barcelona later today with a welcome event and the awarding of several EDEN Fellowships. EDEN2015 promises to be an unforgettable event for anyone involved in digital education. Unported License.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to register now to participate in this event. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. network to be kept updated on this and future events. REGISTER HERE to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Education Politics. Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” “ What does Trump’s executive order on education do? ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Education Politics. ” The Department of Education press release : “U.S. ” The Department of Education press release : “U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Issues Statement on New Title IX Guidance.” ” Via NPR : “ Trump And Transgender Rights : What Just Happened? .”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Education Politics. The Education and Justice Departments have notified every public school district in the country with a “Dear Colleague” letter that discrimination against transgender students , particularly over which bathroom they can use, violates federal civil rights law. Will the legislation do more harm than good?”

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

Those who study the future of education often suggest that the demise of traditional classrooms is not only inevitable, but imminent. Secondly, he suggests that technology is overhyped and is not future-proofed, especially against 'major unplanned events', although what these might be, he fails to elaborate. but is he right?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Nicola Soares, vice president and managing director for Kelly Educational Staffing at Kelly Services, who has her finger on the pulse of employment and hiring trends. The event was part of our EdSurge Live series. Read highlights from the conversation below (which have been edited and condensed for clarity).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 10, 2013

Like MOOCs, only more intimate. :) Because the events are virtual and we don''t have the traditional time/space/travel constraints of a physical event, we''ve boldly gone past the traditional conference model of "vetting and selecting" presenters to inclusion and audience choice. Please join us for one or all of these events.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 17, 2014

Please forward to your friends and colleagues - this event is free! Mobile users will be able to connect to sessions by going to LearningRevolution.com on your mobile device. Long,Teacher Environmental Education, Biology and General Science Learning through your workplace - Lidmyla Kovalova, CEO of G.U.N. Tuttle, Ed.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 7, 2016

Although we learn naturally, and learning is a process - a series of events - deliberate learning is caused by curiosity, a desire to discover more. If we take a formal education course learning will be different to our informal autodidactic efforts. We can enrol on a course, or we can trawl the web.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Education Politics. ” Another Department of Education release : an update to the College Scorecard. ” Another Department of Education release : an update to the College Scorecard. “ California vs. Massachusetts education ballot question politics” by Sherman Dorn. Education in the Courts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 23, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren''t able to attend them live. How do you create a MOOC?

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. My fellow students and I watched avidly - I can't recall what the topic was, but I do remember the thrill of the experience - it was fresh and new to be able to watch television in a formal education setting. The future?

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

It was a powerful gathering of campus leaders and practitioners, organized around a common focus on liberal education. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Consensus was: next steps, the future of tech and liberal education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

This event is being organized in partnership with Heather Moorefield-Lang , who will serve as moderator for the opening panel and as the closing keynote speaker. If you are unsure what makerspaces are, think of them as creative locations for tinkering, collaborating, problem solving, and creating in a library or educational space.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 7, 2015

It ran for ten sessions lasting an hour each, over a period of several months, and we discussed a wide range of subjects such as the future of distance education, embedding technology into education and digital literacies. CET) April 22: What is the impact of mobile learning? Post conference discussion) (20.00 Unported License.

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