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5 Ideas for Teaching Students the Most Important Skill They’ll Need

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Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). SAMR – Subsitution, Augmentation, Modification, Reinvention ( click for my article ).

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How—and Why—We Can Improve the Future of Mobile Learning

Edsurge

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Despite this promising beginning, the role of mobile devices in the classroom and in education overall is still rather limited.

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Mobile learning and personal metrics

Learning with 'e's

There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. Mobile devices also afford users the ability to annotate, organise and share content once they have found it, within their community of interest. Unported License.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. That’s good. Open Curriculum.

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Do We Really Want Academic Permanent Records to Live Forever on Blockchain?

Edsurge

The technology could also allow for a more seamless international exchange of ideas and mobility among students and researchers through effective recognition and certificate management. A blockchain would most likely contain exam results or internship data, but is the publication of an article also something that should be stored?

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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