Neo LMS
JANUARY 27, 2022
Some of these are: different approaches to teaching adapted to students’ needs, developed ICT skills, professional development for teachers, attempts to bridge the digital divide, improvement of resource accessibility, funding and curriculum changes. Exploring three opportunities for education created by the pandemic.
Edsurge
JANUARY 24, 2022
One big hurdle to realizing that possibility, though—and to inviting educators from around the world to gather in a virtual teachers lounge—is the digital divide, which exists both within the U.S. That includes higher education. And simultaneously create new concerns about safety and privacy.) and between the U.S. and other nations.
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TeacherCast
JANUARY 1, 2016
These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools. In an effort to close the Digital Divide in the world’s poorest nations, a nonprofit called Close the Gap teamed up with Hoops of Hope and Arrow Electronics to outfit 40-foot long shipping containers for off-grid use.
MindShift
DECEMBER 14, 2015
In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.
Bryan Alexander
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Myth 4: MOOCS will transform everything. This elicited the first pushback, as some people wrote in to celebrate their use of MOOCs for personal professional development. One chimed in with admiration for the Modern Poetry MOOC. So gaming beat virtual worlds, and at least one person saw competency-based learning trumping MOOCs.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. “A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs ” – an op-ed by Class Central ’s Dhawal Shah in Edsurge.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
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