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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). WIKI – What I Know I Learnt. Tagged: acronym , acronyms , edtech , education , exxample , learning , tech , technology , terms. MLD – Mobile Learning Devices.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. I didn’t have to wonder whether I should used a wiki or a blog or a journal with my students. It was only when the large MOOCS arrived and shook up the university administrators that they collectively lifted their heads from the sand.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. I didn’t have to wonder whether I should used a wiki or a blog or a journal with my students. It was only when the large MOOCS arrived and shook up the university administrators that they collectively lifted their heads from the sand.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Edsurge : “ Jefferson Education Accelerator Winds Down, Rebrands to Focus on Edtech Reviews and Procurement.” Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. .” Of course.