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Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

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Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before. When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

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MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Be sure to come sign up on the conference website to be notified of recording availability.

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The Free, Amazing, Library 2.014 Online Events This Week

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

- Nancy Faget, Federal Librarian 8:00pm Cultural Literacy as Information Literacy at HBCU Libraries - Ana Ndumu, Reference Librarian turned Doctoral Student DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS: Christine Bruce, Ian Stoodley & Hilary Hughes on "Information Experience: New approaches to theory and practice" Facing a Rising Tide: Using Blackboard to Navigate a (..)

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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“Instrumenting” classrooms means being able to track what students are doing as they go through learning materials, such as digital textbooks and online labs, and seeing which behaviors tend to lead to the best performance on quizzes, exams or other measures of student learning.

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