Doug Levin
MAY 12, 2015
I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway. K-12 context.
Digital Promise
MAY 20, 2016
We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. The Impact.
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Edsurge
MAY 25, 2020
Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.
Edsurge
APRIL 27, 2023
About 10 years ago, when big-name colleges were rushing to put out free online courses known as MOOCs, some proponents considered having Hollywood celebrities deliver them. But he hopes that such tools are used like textbooks or instructional materials, not as replacements for human instructors. “If
Edsurge
JULY 20, 2017
Rather than limiting yourself to looking at educational resources produced by schools or universities, find examples of instructional materials from other sectors to get ideas. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Materials inevitably speak from a single perspective, and multiple viewpoints cannot be integrated directly into materials. Accessibility improvements made to materials must be regularly destroyed and recreated by each individual institution, causing an enormous duplication of effort.
Hack Education
MAY 20, 2016
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The company, which provides public radio and related instructional materials to classrooms, has raised $1.55 .” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.” million total.
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