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

Edsurge

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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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

About 10 years ago, when big-name colleges were rushing to put out free online courses known as MOOCs, some proponents considered having Hollywood celebrities deliver them. But he hopes that such tools are used like textbooks or instructional materials, not as replacements for human instructors. “If

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Rather than limiting yourself to looking at educational resources produced by schools or universities, find examples of instructional materials from other sectors to get ideas. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.

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

Iterating Toward Openness

Materials inevitably speak from a single perspective, and multiple viewpoints cannot be integrated directly into materials. Accessibility improvements made to materials must be regularly destroyed and recreated by each individual institution, causing an enormous duplication of effort.

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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.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). . “ Desegregation is unraveling in this Texas town,” writes The Hechinger Report.