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10+ Ways to Recharge Your Batteries Over the Summer

Teacher Reboot Camp

Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning. quarantinegamessorted Tinyurl.com/quarantinegamez Connect with educators online! Tips and Resources. “Take rest; a ?eld

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10+ Ways to Recharge Your Batteries Over the Summer

Teacher Reboot Camp

Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning. Connect with educators online! Twitter chats- Sites.google.com/site/twittereducationchats/education-chat-calendar.

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So I'm Taking a MOOC.

EdTechSandyK

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. The course is aimed at learning about K-12 online instruction, which I''m interested in knowing more about. Unported License.

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The Case For Shutting Schools Down Instead of Moving Classes Online

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Many K-12 schools this week have cancelled in-person classes and announced a shift to online teaching. But at least one online-learning expert thinks that's a bad decision, especially for vulnerable students. A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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Since at least last year, Meta has experimented with Facebook Classes, a program designed to make online instruction through its platform smoother. version of the platform and shared a screenshot on Twitter. Facebook Classes for Events ‘Classes’ is new event type which can be selected when creating a new online event on Facebook.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager.

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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

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The moral of that tale, he adds, is there is probably no easy, silver-bullet questionnaire that can be asked at the beginning of any online course to improve completion, as some learning scientists had hoped. Considering Context But that doesn’t mean Reich has given up on behavioral interventions in online learning.

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