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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

Edsurge

In June 2010, the iPhone 4—the first ever iPhone to have an LED flash—was released. This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). In September 2013, iOS 7 was released, with a flashlight button in the Control Center.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. 2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School.

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What the flip?

Learning with 'e's

Don't get me wrong, video has its place in education. But by any stretch of the imagination, just watching a video cannot be seen as a viable substitute for good learning, and should not be used to replace campus based education just for the sake of it. Sounds like the old style distance education to me.

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Why has higher education decided on Zoom?

Bryan Alexander

For example, once the learning management system/virtual learning environment took off around 2000, I and others have tracked which ones different campuses adopt: Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, etc. And startups have appeared, sometimes from educational spaces, such as InSpace or Engageli. But Zoom seems to have run the table.

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This Week's Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate (Formerly Elluminate)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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). Do you get excited and energized by talking with other educators about technology tools and resources? On Monday June 13 at 5.30

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10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

Nik Peachey

In the initial rush to get learning online many organisations got themselves a Moodle platform and then attached a whole load of PDFs and.docs, added some forums and the odd video clip and called it an online course. Vyou also has a very handy mobile app so you can answer the questions where ever you are on your iPhone or other mobile device.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. “ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. The education reform-minded publication The 74 says that “Educators Warn of ‘Devastating’ Consequences for Charter Schools in New GOP Tax Bill.”