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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

Offer a book study on Invent to Learn (the authors have created a study guide). Teachers can engage in a meaningful way by joining a book study massive online open course, on books such as The Innovator’s Mindset , Learner-Centered Innovation and Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. million book images from the Internet Archive. . National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

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Credential Blockchains Could Help Student Mobility. These 4 Efforts Explore How.

Edsurge

San Jose State Puts Blockchain on the Books How can libraries use ledgers? The institution has hosted a national forum and virtual conference and produced a MOOC and a book exploring the potential uses of blockchain technology in the field of information systems.

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What’s the Right Price for an Online Degree?

Edsurge

A passenger in first class can be flying free on points, while a traveler jammed into coach might be charged a premium for a last-minute booking. After all, campuses include expensive academic buildings, sports facilities, dormitories and other routine services, such as dining halls and libraries, requiring constant costly maintenance.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

Edsurge

A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs. Well, at least partially open.

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As College Innovation Efforts Grow, So Do Warnings of a ‘McDonaldization’ of Higher Ed

Edsurge

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique).

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OPINION: When it comes to liberal-arts education, online learning changes only the tools

The Hechinger Report

For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. I never found the right way to do that in my MOOCs because there were so many students enrolled and they were not moving through the material together.