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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

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Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These default features force online instructors to use a style of teaching that feels more like shouting to the masses than engaging in meaningful conversations.

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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

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Asynchronous,” on the other hand, refers to activities performed by students and instructors anytime—at home, in the library, even while commuting, doing homework, emailing, posting messages, and consuming videos and podcasts, reading, writing and so on.

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8 Reasons to Create Interactive Textbooks for Engaging K-12 Students

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They are more interactive and intuitive, and keep the students engaged in the learning process. You might have experienced this yourself; our concentration tends to waver if the content we are viewing is not engaging enough. Be it an online video or a live seminar. Create a Digital Library.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Prezi Video enables users to design professional video presentations to be shared in classrooms, conferences, seminars, and the like. GoSoapBox is preferred by teachers managing large classes of 100+ students. Teachers use this platform to create polls and social questions and answers to keep students engaged during and after classes.

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Virtual Learning: Benefits and Challenges

Reading By Example

My personal example is worth noting as we are starting to see from the research coming available that the results of virtual learning, in which students engage in primarily online- mediated learning experiences, are mixed at best. Available: https://www.theschoolinthecloud.org/library/resources/running-sole-sessions.

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Virtual Learning: Benefits and Challenges

Reading By Example

My personal example is worth noting as we are starting to see from the research coming available that the results of virtual learning, in which students engage in primarily online- mediated learning experiences, are mixed at best. Available: https://www.theschoolinthecloud.org/library/resources/running-sole-sessions.

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How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education

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[The Library of Trinity College Dublin. Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. Photo by PhotoFra.]

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