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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Auditory learners prefer to process information recited or spoken to them, via either live lectures, group discussion, or audio playback. For example, at many post-secondary institutions, a teaching space is considered to be a Smart Classroom if it merely comes equipped with nothing more than a microphone, computer, video projector.

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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. I asked a group of superintendents and school principals from New Hampshire about this during a round table discussion.

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

Edsurge

It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. Students are “seated” in virtual tables, in groups of up to 10. Students “seated” at different virtual tables groups on Engageli. It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says.

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Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this!

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Why History Matters

Hack Education

And I’m sorry, but another aside: if you get your history of education from a guy who calls Thomas Jefferson’s slaves “employees” then you might have some real problems discerning the kinds of sources – primary or secondary – that you should take seriously.). Why blackboards? When blackboards?

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. border, Tecnológico de Monterrey, a private university, founded in 1943 by a group of wealthy local business executives, supports 33 campuses across the nation and in 15 countries abroad. South of the U.S.

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Tonight - Ron Ritchhart on "Making Thinking Visible"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link]. Ron earned his Ed.D.