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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from. 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.

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When Personalized Learning Is a Logical Fallacy

Edsurge

After pointing out that many of the folks who are investigating “personalized learning”—including both MindWires and EdSurge—have received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the article goes on to quote grantee after grantee saying variations of the same thing: “Meh. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto.

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A Visual Cheat Sheet For Education Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

The following infographic/cheat sheet from @goboundless outlines some of the larger scale (eLearning) or controversial (MOOC) movements, as well as those on the rise (1:1, personalized learning), and providing working definitions for each. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Blended Learning. Adaptive Learning.

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Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund

Edsurge

He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) There’s a lot of creativity around targeted vocational programs that deliver a definite salary uplift and expand people’s life options,” he says. Yet for Greenfield, that doesn’t mean taking unnecessary risks. Our model isn’t premised on us investing in unicorns.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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To push it further, one definition of disruption might be a bottom-up cause that substantially effects the ecology it is a part of (e.g., Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. First, some quick clarification so that we have a common language. Ease of publishing (e.g.,

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes.

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

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So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. The idea of service, community interaction, humility, place-based education, project-based learning, the cost of technology, and more.