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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. Who's cheating the time-clock, that is.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

Learning with 'e's

He has set up a number of alternative learning experiences, but most notably, his MOOC on digital storytelling, more commonly known as ds106, has had tremendous impact on what we now consider to be possible with global, networked learning. Listening to Jim Groom speak is a lot of fun. However, all of this wasn't just fun for fun sake.

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

So I started asking around, bugging individuals and querying social media. Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud. Udemy – the MOOC provider may let users create classes there. The results fascinated me.

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A Flipped Classroom Approach: Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

There can also be a temptation for children to use other technologies whilst viewing content, such as utilising social media and temporary blocks on other tools during flipped learning activities should be considered. Teachers may have to create additional resources.

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Punk learning

Learning with 'e's

For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). Learning by watching YouTube or participation in social media discussions are certainly methods that are gaining traction.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. ” Despite raising some $87.5

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