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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

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In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year. Video-assisted Learning. MOOCS (massive online open courses) are different from virtual classes, and are usually offered by colleges and universities.

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For Students, the Convenience of Smartphones ‘Comes at a Steep Price’

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Ted Dintersmith : There was a massive gush of enthusiasm for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), with some conviction it would revolutionize higher education. Many colleges rushed to put in place their MOOC offerings, hoping to provide meaningful free or low-cost education to a “massive” number of students. What never panned out?

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

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Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. I was studying at college and a man in a white coat wheeled a television and video player into the room. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace.

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A Podcast for Every Discipline? The Rise of Educational Audio

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Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

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He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. Wesch posts videos of himself doing the "challenges" he poses to his students.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. From Zoom to Skype to Webinars and even live streaming on social media itself, video is perhaps the most visible and common form of technological innovation in K-12 and higher ed. Video, of course, enables other innovations. We shall see. An example?

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Khan Academy Has Inspired Imitations Across Disciplines. MEDKSL is the Latest.

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“I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. Sharma has a background in technology and video production (he actively researches and writes about educational technology and knowledge translation) led him to consider how to bridge that divide. The TED Talk folks got it right,” he says.