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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

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It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.

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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. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment. It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. Although there are different pathways to learn the material, the end goal is the same for all students.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. Although there are different pathways to learn the material, the end goal is the same for all students.

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A Summer of Student Voices

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“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. You can’t mix AltSchool and Freire.”. “I She’s a poet.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

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Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0;

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