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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." Designed to adjust in real-time to each student's prior knowledge and skill attainment, adaptive systems respond to variations in ability and diverse student backgrounds, sensitive to the the unique needs of each learner.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.

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Live Online Video Classes Are ‘The New Face-to-Face.’ So How Many Students Can They Handle at a Time?

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Live Classes at Scale MOOCs sparked widespread attention several years ago largely because of excitement over the idea of one professor being able to teach massive numbers of students from across the world at once. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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One of the best ways to do this is to seek out inspiration from other learning designers. For example, look at the examples of host education that Airbnb puts together. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom. This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom .

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! A recent piece by Ellen Wexler, one of our contributing writers, serves as a strong example of the kind of stories we’re drawn to at EdSurge, though. The interview, “ Why U.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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One example is Great Hill Partners, which invested in Examity in April. Knewton, an adaptive learning engine that became a digital courseware company, was reportedly bought by Wiley for way less than it raised. Last year, Great Hill also put in $110 million in Connexeo , a provider of school administration and payment software.

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