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Innovation In E-learning In The Last 10 Years

EdTech4Beginners

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation. Gamification in the Learning Process.

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Why Is Teaching So Prone to Fads?

Edsurge

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. At some point, gamification was going to be the answer. Teaching is full of fads, big ideas that promise to revolutionize instruction.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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New Teachers Won’t Save Us

The Thinking Stick

Are they studying new approaches to learning such as gamification and reverse instruction. Are they studying new and emerging learning theories like Connectivism that was written and has been around since 2005 and is the foundation to what MOOC s are based on. Where they might work and where they might not.

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How One Coding School Hopes to Teach Thousands of Students, Without Professors

Edsurge

Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. You were sitting at the computer, and were you looking at MOOCs from other colleges, or were you tapping the person next to you to ask a question? Does your model at 42 work because there are so many MOOCs and other free courses online now?

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