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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

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This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. And new kinds of educational institutions have emerged, like the nonprofit Khan Academy , with its thousands of free educational videos on a wide range of subjects. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

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It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. A few years later, the concept lit up like rocket fuel thanks in part to the catchy name, along with fast-growing home internet connectivity and a shout-out in Sal Khan’s popular TED Talk.