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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

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Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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Implementing education technology by pursuing technology education: Professional Development ideas for educators

Neo LMS

Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. Although teachers have advanced resources, many are unsure how best to implement them in the classroom. Take a degree course. Sample popular edtech tools.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms. Online Learning and Non-traditional Students. Content-Driven vs. Connection-Driven.

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Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science

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She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. But actually research is showing that if a student is already struggling a little bit in the classroom because the material is difficult, their working memory might be working at full capacity.

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Coursera’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix—and LinkedIn

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It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. Serving the 300 million people expected to enter higher education in the next year with classroom sizes found in typical college seminars, he adds, is simply “not possible.”

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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

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CHROME AT HOME: Chromebooks are on the rise in American classrooms, and many teachers are in favor of allowing students to bring them home. grabbed the top contributor spots, speaking to brain-based classroom design, computational thinking, and school culture. Two teachers and two administrators representing four states across the U.S.

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50 Alternatives To Lecturing

TeachThought - Learn better.

Talking with students and expecting them to respond meaningfully isn’t lecture–that’s accountable talk, which itself is close to a Socratic dialogue or Paideia seminar. School-to-school instruction (using Skype in the classroom , for example). Self-guided MOOC. Traditional MOOC. Paideia Seminar.