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MOOCs are No Longer Massive. And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.

Edsurge

MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. And that's what MOOCS have.

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MIT Starts University Group to Build New Digital Credential System

Edsurge

When a college goes out of business , all of its alumni can suddenly find themselves in an unexpected dilemma: How can graduates prove they actually earned their degrees when no one is left at the institution to send academic transcripts to prospective employers or graduate schools? Why create yet another body of digital credentials?

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10+ Ways to Recharge Your Batteries Over the Summer

Teacher Reboot Camp

passthesketchnote-info Virtual group fun! Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags Find your hashtag community! Games, Karaoke, Dancing, Exercise, Celebrations, Watch Parties Netflixparty.com Bit.ly/quarantinegamessorted

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10+ Ways to Recharge Your Batteries Over the Summer

Teacher Reboot Camp

Virtual group fun! Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Facebook groups, pages and live events. Facebook.com/groups/search/groups_home/?q=education. Facebook.com/groups/webinarsforenglishteachers. q=education.

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How to choose the right solution platform for virtual campus management.

Linways Technologies

So to be on the current, institutions should focus on how to engage with the students, how to assure a certain level of quality in teaching-learning, and how digital learning is perceived. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses.

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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

As a group, women said they were the least comfortable with programming and prototyping. One of the foundational pillars behind makerspaces is computational thinking, yet when asked how frequently computational thinking is found in the classroom, the answer is consistently low. by Ashley Cross.

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Edsurge

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This means giving people small chambers of engagement where they can interact with a smaller, more manageable and yet still diverse groups. These design choices have noticeable implications.