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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). VLE – Virtual Learning Environment. STEAM – Science, Technology, Art, Engineering, Maths.

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ).

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Many of these companies were launched circa 2013 — that is, in the tailwinds of "the Year of the MOOC," with the belief that an increasing number of students would be learning online and that professors would demand some sort of mechanism to verify their identity and their integrity.

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