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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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Nelson says the new version of the system lets professors quickly divide a large class into groups of up to 12 students. The requirement of filling out the worksheet, or doing some other activity like a poll or quiz, makes sure students in breakout groups stay on task, Nelson says.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

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We must ask: is designing our next-generation learning tools with such a content-driven focus on academic mastery sufficient to help people break into the middle class, when we know our economy is still so connection-driven ? In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content.

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What Faculty Need to Know About ‘Learner Experience Design’

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Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptive learning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. New technologies promise a more adaptive and personalized learning experience.

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

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We’ve watched and admired as groups from Student Voice to Young Invincibles grow in power and visibility, emboldening students to speak up and speak out. We’ve learned so much from the wit, energy and thoughtfulness from the first two cohorts of students. This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC. Now He Wants to Widen Their Impact.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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And look at examples of tangible rather than screen-based technologies that have been produced by groups like Paulo Blikstein’s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab. Check out the beautiful animations produced by Amnesty International or the interactive lessons produced on Oppia.

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

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Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. The high tally for venture funding this year is not unique to the edtech industry.

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

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Allison Salisbury: Here at EdSurge we’ve watched and admired as groups from Student Voice to Young Invincibles grow in power and visibility, emboldening students to speak up and speak out. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! The interview, “ Why U.

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