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Digital learning futures

Learning with 'e's

I was pleasantly surprised by the huge turnout to hear me speak, and grateful to Don Taylor and his team for inviting me to speak at this excellent event. My audience has been extended beyond the walls of the event to a global classroom through the amazing power of social media.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

Edsurge

I was also surprised to see so little development in gaming and gamification within education this past year. Lastly, I forecast continued incremental growth of open educational resources (OER) and open access in scholarly publication. Resistance to deportation enforcement could galvanize or divide campuses.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG also offers two other fabulous portals filled with resources to help classroom teachers and teacher librarians inquiry and historical analysis. Using resources from the Library of Congress, these 80 units cover both U.S. and world history events. But wait, there’s more! . Social studies teachers will adore these!

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Looking backward and forward

Kathy Schrock

I also began to look at the large database of information I was collecting in the game– the number of each Pokemon I captured, the points I received, the “power rating” of each Pokemon I had collected, and the actual time and date each event happened. But these are just my opinions.

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The 2013 Reform Symposium This Week - Online, Free, and with Amazing Speakers and Presenters

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

It''s an online global event highlighting “wow” moments in teaching and learning , and the entire conference will be held online using the Blackboard Collaborate webinar platform, running out of my FutureofEducation.com community. .

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Four game changers

Learning with 'e's

As a prime mover in the Open Educational Resources movement, Wayne Mackintosh must feel a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept.

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