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The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. Digital citizenship refers to appropriate and responsible use of technology.
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Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.
Increasingly formal use of socialmedia by education institutions. The increasing potential to “start a business” that is entirely social and digital (which impacts the idea of a “job,” for example). Adaptivelearning platforms and learning algorithms. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc.
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was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
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Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ socialmedia’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. ” JFC.
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