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Will COVID-19 Lead to Another MOOC Moment?

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Large-scale courses known as MOOCs were invented to get free or low-cost education to people who could not afford or get access to traditional options. Duke University was one of the first institutions to draw on MOOCs in response to the novel coronavirus. Other MOOC providers are making similar offers.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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What’s Next for Edtech Now That the ‘Pandemic Bump’ Has Faded?

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Where we haven’t spent as much time—or seen as many home run success stories—is translating social learning to online formats. If anything, we’ve gone backwards, with all the emerging mental-health challenges young people are facing due to social media usage.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

From Zoom to Skype to Webinars and even live streaming on social media itself, video is perhaps the most visible and common form of technological innovation in K-12 and higher ed. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. We shall see. An example?

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A Flipped Classroom Approach: Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

There can also be a temptation for children to use other technologies whilst viewing content, such as utilising social media and temporary blocks on other tools during flipped learning activities should be considered. If you are on the bench, this article about Flipped Classroom legend Jim Baker will help you get in the game.

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Self organised learning spaces

Learning with 'e's

." - Albert Einstein The social web is replete with self-organising spaces. million articles in English, and many more in other languages. wikipedia Technology education social media communities of learning self organised learning flipped classroom' Take Wikipedia for example. Unported License.

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The future of classrooms

Learning with 'e's

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.