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

Neo LMS

Education technology tools and solutions are becoming commonplace and widespread. As a result, educators must stay on top of trends and pursue ongoing learning in technology. When it comes to professional development for educators, it’s vital to learn about the edtech options available. Take a degree course.

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

Edsurge

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. Despite these promising developments, however, vast inequity still persists in the United States education system. People in rural Bhutan could take a computer science class from Harvard.

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OPINION: When it comes to liberal-arts education, online learning changes only the tools

The Hechinger Report

“Things will never be the same in higher education!” Those who expected radical disruption in the wake of the Great Recession now seem to believe that it’s the coronavirus that will lead to a massive migration of students away from in-person learning and toward the promised land of tech-infused distance education.

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Live Online Video Classes Are ‘The New Face-to-Face.’ So How Many Students Can They Handle at a Time?

Edsurge

The announcement, from The Minerva Project, enters a longstanding debate about whether online education can drastically cut the cost of education by reducing the number of instructors needed to teach. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. This is not an operation where one person does it.

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More humanities seminars online, and they’re not MOOCs

Bryan Alexander

Starting this January forty (40) humanities seminars will kick into action, online. Campuses get to see higher numbers in upper-level humanities seminars, while at the same time expanding the curriculum they present to students. Note, too, that the teaching methods are not uniform.

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Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science

Edsurge

So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. But for decades, many educators have said that the idea of “drill and kill” [of pushing students to memorize key concepts] is bad.

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