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

Edsurge

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This presents a challenge and an opportunity: How can we design online learning environments that achieve scale and intimacy? These design choices have noticeable implications.

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More humanities seminars online, and they’re not MOOCs

Bryan Alexander

Starting this January forty (40) humanities seminars will kick into action, online. Campuses get to see higher numbers in upper-level humanities seminars, while at the same time expanding the curriculum they present to students. Note, too, that the teaching methods are not uniform.

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April 30th - Library 2.015 Spring Summit Focuses on Innovation, Technology, and Preparation for the Future

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

With technology changing so rapidly, how can libraries, organizations, and individuals stay abreast of the economic, social, and ethical ramifications of innovations and prepare successfully for the future? The free half-day seminar is open to the public and will take place online via Blackboard Collaborate on April 30, 2015, from 12 p.m.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

Also, the present examination questions are more focused on lower cognitive skills. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students. appeared first on Linways Technologies. The lack of this connection makes the whole exercise ineffective.

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Life in the freezer

Learning with 'e's

My research into learning technology has attracted many invitations to speak at universities in far flung places. Here''s the story: My invitation to present a research seminar for staff and post graduate students at the University of Antarctica , came out of the blue. My first thought was that it must be some kind of a joke.

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Today’s Awkward Zoom Classes Could Bring a New Era of Higher Education

Edsurge

But they are also–subtly, and critically–the result of technological change. In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. The slides are also available here. The quotation is from 2012.

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