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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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29 Sessions to Watch During This Year's SXSW EDU

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The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? A pair of entrepreneurs from a scholarship startup and an income-share agreement company join Lumina Foundation and Money Magazine to explore. Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. Dhawal Shah, CEO and founder of Class Central, has spent the last six years tracking them.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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"The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine. This spyware extracts an incredible amount of information from students, including their biometric data, audio, and video, and then runs it through proprietary algorithms designed to identify suspicious behavior that might signal cheating. Unknowable.

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Why Students Can’t Write — And Why Tech is Part of the Problem

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In fact, for years he edited one of the most popular humor magazines on the Internet, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — a more literary version of the The Onion. Because there's no information I can give students about writing that will help them write better. But Warner is not anti-tech.

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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

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As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

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He also writes a blog for Psychology Today magazine, and co-hosts a podcast through Austin’s NPR station called Two Guys on Your Head. Your brain wants to keep using information when you're forced to keep pulling it out over and over again. And that can have important consequences with student retention?

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Google Summit - Student App Development - Maker Education - Reinventing Higher Ed

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

More information or register here! Our goal is to have you walk away with practical information and inspiration for furthering game-based learning in class and beyond. Look for more information in the coming weeks. More information at [link]. For more information, click here. Gaming in Ed: September 15th - 19th.

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