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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Tight on Goals, Flexible on Means: Universal Design for Learning Empowers Opportunity Youth

Digital Promise

The Fellows learn how to: Assess student learning differences in the classroom and implement responsive instructional strategies premised on UDL; Use technological tools and flexible instructional media to provide a rich and adaptive learning environment; and. Learn More.

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Speak Up, Speak Out! The Student Voices That Stirred Higher Ed in 2016

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EdSurge Independent is a student-run community that meets online once a week to discuss trends and ideas within postsecondary education, and share their experiences on a student-run Medium blog. We’ve learned so much from the wit, energy and thoughtfulness from the first two cohorts of students. Personal blog).

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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A Visual Cheat Sheet For Education Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Keeping up with technology is impossible, even for blogs like Mashable, Engadget, and Techcrunch that do it for a living. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Blended Learning. Asynchronous Learning. Adaptive Learning. Personalized Learning. Informal Learning. by TeachThought Staff.

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

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A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. 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.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. blogs, social media, podcasting) to promote conversation and thinking around what’s possible in education. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Rapid change in the demands for media forms (e.g., text to infographics to eCards to podcasts). Ease of publishing (e.g.,