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5 Traps That Will Kill Online Learning (and Strategies to Avoid Them)

Edsurge

Online learning has moved to the front stage as 90 percent of high-income countries are using it as the primary means of educational continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Department of Education, Richard is a go-to person for exploring the shift we are experiencing in learning today. It’s painful to watch.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. Even if we go back to face-to-face learning, we will all have to be prepared to teach online, and the best way to do this is to first educate ourselves with research and pedagogy.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

Edsurge

Exams are only good for a few things : managing faculty workload and assessing low level skill and content knowledge. What they aren’t good at is demonstrating student learning or mastery of a topic. In designing online assessments without a proctoring system, we need to take into account the online environment and all it offers.

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Spotting Trends and Delivering Data to Connect Edtech Tools With Educator Needs

Edsurge

The popularity of online learning tools, web-based rich content such as video, interactive digital textbooks, e-books, online assessment and the increasing dependence on the internet for student and teacher learning is growing rapidly. What’s fueling innovation in schools right now?

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In praise of the open-book exam

IT Bill

Jones from Washington State University, found that with the non-proctored online exams, students took about twice as long to complete their exams and performed between 10% and 15% better than students taking proctored exams. Open-book exams, in particular, were found to help learners develop critical thinking skills. Johanns, B.,

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Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

Collective Learning with Social Features. Online learning has ensured that learning is not confined to classrooms. It also ensured that learning is not an isolated experience. eBooks thus provide a collective learning experience at all times. Here’s how augmented reality can transform the classroom.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. Books Gone Wild. Read more and register for this event here.

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