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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). WIKI – What I Know I Learnt. IOT – Internet of Things (Connecting devices to a network i.e. lights, phones, TVs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

Digital Literacy While players in a school environment can turn to each other for assistance and support, they may also visit the numerous Minecraft-dedicated wikis, blogs or YouTube channels for inspiration. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. Language Learning and Minecraft. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom.

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Parabolic learning

Learning with 'e's

They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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How can we engage online learners?

Learning with 'e's

Huge attrition rates still exist today in online education, especially in some of the latest forms such as MOOCs. User generated content developed to include blogs, status updates, voting, aggregation, curation, remixing, repurposing and sharing of content, podcasts, wikis, videos, images and other online creation of content.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. They could make a local history wiki or, even better, make contributions to our global information commons by directly creating and editing Wikipedia pages.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.