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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). DOK – Depth Of Knowledge.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. That’s good. We shall see. An example?

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place. The Flipped approach ensures that the classroom is no longer the only space where formal learning can take place.

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A growing divide?

Learning with 'e's

And yet, with the advent of mobile technology, learning can now take place any where, and at any time. Formal learning, though methods such as the flipped classroom , and Massive Open Online Courses , seems to be migrating slowly but steadily away from traditional learning spaces, at least in some quarters. Unported License.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

Edsurge

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. The vision was partly to be mobile. It looked like there was going to be a big realignment.

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Any colour you like: Learner autonomy and choice

Learning with 'e's

autonomy e-reader education flipped classroom Games console intrinsic learning MOOC motivation smart mobile student choice Technology' Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning comes first

Learning with 'e's

Not only are MOOCs and other open, online learning opportunities challenging more established business models, they are also causing many of us to re-evaluate the way we teach, and to reconsider the very nature of knowledge, intellectual property, copyright, assessment and collaboration.