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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

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Blended Learning and Project Based Learning… Taking the PBL Gold Standards Online

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

There are new resources included that help educators explore PBL integrated with blended and online learning, including a few I have written for PBLWorks. How might some of these look in a blended classroom? Best of all, many of these lessons can be incorporated in a Learning Management System (LMS).

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Shedding light on Multimodality - Lucia Bodeman 6:00pm KEYNOTE: Rafael Parente 7:00pm iAuthor a Global iBook on the iPad by Meg Wilson Around the World in Nearly 80 Days - Sonya Van Schaijik Direct Your Own Learning - Edna Sackson Mentoring is not just for novices - Tamas Lorincz Picture Perfect Apps - Tia Simmons 8:00pm Attending to Student Narratives: (..)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Fees to join the Flipped Learning Global Initiative are $5000/year. ” Rebrand. ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The Flipped Classroom". This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Common Core State Standards.

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