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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

This means that there are more concepts, terms, and trends in education that teachers need to be aware of - but how do you keep track of them all? Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

This means that there are more concepts, terms, and trends in education that teachers need to be aware of - but how do you keep track of them all? Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Join #TeachDoNow Summer MOOC

Educator Innovator

To accomplish all of this, participants and facilitators will be working together as both learners and change agents in an open environment known as a Massive Open Online Collaboration (MOOC). The goals of this MOOC are to: Engage participants in relevant and important conversation around issues critical to 21st century learning.

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Join #TeachDoNow Summer MOOC

Educator Innovator

To accomplish all of this, participants and facilitators will be working together as both learners and change agents in an open environment known as a Massive Open Online Collaboration (MOOC). The goals of this MOOC are to: Engage participants in relevant and important conversation around issues critical to 21st century learning.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? Hardly earth-shattering results.

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Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

Anya Kamenetz was our Future Trends Forum guest on March 15th , and she sparked one of our most energetic discussions to date, focused on testing. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC. A: Remedial classes are more common at community colleges. Questions and comments raced over Shindig, and live tweeting was vigorous.

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