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12+ Missions Covering Various K12 Content for Meaningful Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

The Internet and social media provide learners with a worldwide audience in which to share their ideas, passions, innovations, thoughts, and brilliance. The Internet and social media also presents many influences that can negatively impact our physical, mental, spiritual, psychological, emotional, and social well-being.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

Edsurge

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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A Podcast for Every Discipline? The Rise of Educational Audio

Edsurge

Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen, or in the player below. Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype.

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Khan Academy Has Inspired Imitations Across Disciplines. MEDKSL is the Latest.

Edsurge

I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. As a result, classes are becoming much more interactive, with small group sessions rather than one-hour lectures.” There are a growing number of students who use Google and YouTube to study instead of buying textbooks.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Politico : “The American Action Forum , a right-leaning public policy group, is recommending that DeVos consider gutting the federal student aid pilot programs created under the Higher Education Act. ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Think Like an Urban Planner to Create Successful Online Learning Communities

Fractus Learning

But often, when we try to create community online through discussion forums or social media, our efforts fall flat. This is your community as a whole (all 30 members in your PLC or all 3,000 participants in your MOOC). In education, we understand the power of relationships in driving our work. The Neighborhood Level.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Use every bit of social media that you can. And here is mine.

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