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Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

Edsurge

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning. For many, the recent leap to remote instruction felt rushed, chaotic and disorganized.

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How to Crowdsource Quality Resources for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. The Impact.

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The Fans, Fanboys, and Fanatics of OER

Doug Levin

I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway. K-12 context.

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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

Edsurge

“We’ve been dreaming in the field of education that people could have their own individual tutors to help them learn,” says Mayer, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, noting that ChatGPT has renewed this push. “So How do we create online tutors who are approachable and we want to learn from?’”

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER: The Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

While everyone wants educational materials to be less expensive, lower costs are the least interesting thing about digital, networked learning. “We can’t expect people to learn the 5Rs,” you might explain (somewhat) patiently. When will we stop focusing on cost to the exclusion of other benefits?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Texas , a Prized K–12 Market , Approves Wave of Instructional Materials.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “New early learning initiative brings Sesame Street lessons into Memphis classrooms.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).