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Should you build your own LMS?

eSchool News

No longer relegated to using textbooks as their core instructional materials, teachers look to their institutions for help selecting, aggregating, and then delivering relevant content to their pupils. Of course, if the district has the right level of financing and support, the do-it-yourself LMS route is actually within reach.

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An OER curriculum brings my students’ lives into our classroom

eSchool News

All of this happened because I stepped back—and because the instructional materials gave my students opportunities to find meaningful connections to their lives. Related : How to find, curate, and assess OER 5 steps to implement OER in your LMS.

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8 Visual techniques for organizing lessons and ideas in the classroom

Neo LMS

If we consider the creation of online instructional materials, it’s even easier to keep the consistency of the entire course by using the same layout for each lesson. For example, if you’re teaching young students how to read, you can come up with a color coding system for words. Concept maps. Headings and subheadings.

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Is your classroom ready for BYOD?

Neo LMS

Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. For example, policies may dictate that sites such as 9gag are not allowed during certain class hours. Sounds easy.

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eBook details key strategies to manage digital curriculum

eSchool News

“According to the Consortium for School Networking’s 2015 IT Leadership Survey, 84 percent of school technology officials expect that at least half of their instructional materials will be digitally based within three years,” said itslearning vice president of sales and marketing, Matt Dobosh. Jump started and crowd sourced.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

For example, look at the examples of host education that Airbnb puts together. And look at examples of tangible rather than screen-based technologies that have been produced by groups like Paulo Blikstein’s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab. Look at the altMBA program that Seth Godin runs using Slack.

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25 digital tools and edtech resources from FETC

eSchool News

Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time. Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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