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A Professional Development Alternative

My Island View

There was only one session that addressed an understanding of Andragogy, also referred to as adult learning, and how components of their program addressed it. Research tells us that lecture is not the most effective way to teach, so why would we think computer-delivered webinars would work any better?

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Live Thursday Dec. 9th with Julie Young from Florida Virtual School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Thursday, December 9th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Julie Young, President and Chief Executive Officer of Florida Virtual School. In 1997, Julie Young pioneered the launch of Florida Virtual School with the goal of providing high quality, online courses to students throughout the State of Florida.

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Problem based learning

Learning with 'e's

Photo by Cyrano82 on Deviant Art Over the course of the next few posts, I'm responding directly and more expansively to some of the questions posted during my live webinar for EDEN. For those who are not familiar with EDEN , it's a large international organisation dedicated to the promotion of distance education and e-learning.

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With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’

Edsurge

Drawing on lingo that has gained popularity among tech entrepreneurs, these online simulations of colleges are being called “metaversities.” We want to create an ecosystem for learning in the metaverse. We want to create an ecosystem for learning in the metaverse,” says Monica Arés, head of Immersive Learning at Meta. “We

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American higher education might not be broken, but seems to be sick

Bryan Alexander

We discussed the future and current state of online learning. There were comments about universities acting to support the public good, and the importance of academic knowledge for the commonweal. I left the meeting hopeful and inspired. Thanks, too, to LM and whomever else was staffing the IHE Twitter account during the event.