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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

This powerful tool can provide a space for teacher-to-teacher collaboration, professional learning and support, parent communication, and even special projects and enrichment classes for students. Badging has become particularly popular for encouraging teachers to learn new tech skills. Online Professional Learning.

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MIT Moves Beyond the MOOC to Court Companies, Professional Learners

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In 2013, MIT began offering online programs for working professionals to meet learners across the globe. Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education.

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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

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Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Free or Low-Cost Resources for PD in Distance Learning

Graphite Blog

Teaching Digital Citizenship (free) This roughly one-hour, interactive online training prepares educators to teach students the crucial skills and dispositions to be mindful and responsible online citizens. edWeb (free) edWeb offers a range of professional learning, including a huge archive of more than 1,850 recorded webinars.

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

Marketplace K-12

Of these, 75 percent took online and/or blended courses because they have a personal interest in the topic, or hoped to gain additional knowledge about it, the 2016 SIIA Vision K-20 Professional Learning Survey found. “Our goal with this study was to find out, ‘Are [educators] taking online professional learning courses?

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

Be sure you check out these blog posts to learn more about how some districts are using badges for professional learning. Offering choice in learning is important for the K-12 classroom as well as adult and professional learning. Online Professional Learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Why #techquity

Educator Innovator

They wrote their questions about equity on half sheets of paper and taped them to a brick wall in the high school cafeteria where we planned our professional learning. Teachers opted instead to seek training on Google Docs in the classroom, or similarly practical concerns. What’s the point of having the equipment, then?