Digital Promise
MAY 20, 2016
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.
Edsurge
MAY 25, 2020
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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Doug Levin
MAY 12, 2015
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.
Edsurge
APRIL 27, 2023
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
Edsurge
JULY 20, 2017
Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. To get serious about education technology, you have to read Seymour Papert. Get a lay of the technological landscape, but don’t let your LMS hold you hostage.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Texas , a Prized K–12 Market , Approves Wave of Instructional Materials.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).
Hack Education
MAY 20, 2016
Also via Chalkbeat : “Black and white students score far apart on a new test of technology skills.” ” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). million total.
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