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

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One source for insights on how to proceed is the cross-pollination that takes place when educators working in separate spheres learn from one another. The success of Khan Academy videos (almost all of which are under 10 minutes) served as a template for creating cutting-edge online-learning experiences, including massive open online courses.

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

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To Derek Bruff, a visiting associate director at Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, the push to create an ideal personality for a digital tutor reminds him of a previous moment in online learning.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. 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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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The New York Times on The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , an online charter school: “Online School Enriches Affiliated Companies if Not Its Students.” ” Werner Herzog Teaches Filmmaking on the Masterclass online platform.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ FutureLearn , the massive open online course provider owned by the Open University in the U.K., NPR on MOOC Micromasters. Disclosure alert.).