As institutions expand their commitment to online education, many now recognize the value of dedicated staffers who assist faculty members in translating old courses to a new format and creating new courses out of whole cloth

My late friend Hans Rosling called the labels “outdated” and “meaningless.” Any categorization that lumps together China and the Democratic Republic of Congo is too broad to be useful. But I’ve continued to use “developed” and “developing” in public (and on this blog) because there wasn’t a more accurate, easily understandable alternative—until now.

For the last 24 hours the Twittersphere has been buzzing about the recent changes to Padlet. While none of the following tools have as many features as Padlet, they all provide the core element of a digital wall to which you apply digital sticky notes. Here are five alternatives to Padlet. These are in the order in which I prefer

How can you build a Makerspace in your school? How can you support the learning by doing maker movement in your classroom? Learn instructional strategies and how to use tools (physical or virtual) to support building models, prototypes, inventions and innovations and encourage creative problem solving and team collaboration across a wide range of subject matters and all grade levels.

When procurement decisions focus too heavily on inputs like enrolling students in online courses or filling tutoring time, it’s hardly surprising to find tools merely providing cheaper seat-time-based learning models. Pockets of the market, such as credit recovery, have largely fallen victim to this trend. Moreover, even if schools want to focus on learning outcomes, they may be purchasing tools blindly when little to no efficacy data exists to inform their decisions.

The concepts of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are becoming increasingly common in the field of education. Although the implementation of these trends is very recent within the education system, their positive effects on learning have been established.

You Will Learn How to

• Build a school, library, classroom or community-based makerspace.
• Initiate after school maker clubs or an entrepreneurship experience.
• Articulate the relationship between makerspaces and academic disciplines.
• Guide students through design challenges, and explore fixed stations versus workshops.
• Apply learning theories that support making principles when designing learning activities.
• Align instructional goals to design maker-style learning experiences.
• Demonstrate appropriate teaching and assessment behaviors in a maker environment.
• Unleash your creativity with innovative tools and maker project ideas that support learning in all content areas.

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What will I learn?

In this four-course online program, you will learn the skills necessary to develop

• job aids
• self-paced e-learning products
• print materials
• computer-based training
• orientations and compliance tutorials
• courses
• workshops
• webinars
• orientations
• tutorials
• redesign (improve) existing curriculum and instruction for just-in-time delivery and electronic performance support systems (EPSS).

WisdomMaps represents a new way of organizing information that mimics the human thought process and results in greater learner engagement and better learning. This is impossible for other learning methodologies based on “linear learning” to achieve on account of the limitations of “spaghetti code”: information imbibed like slurping up a strand of spaghetti, that is read or heard one sentence or phrase at a time. Spaghetti code is difficult to untangle and organize, and most learners retain only a small fraction of what they read or hear in this fashion.​

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Four simple ways to model and promote compassion, which is especially important for students with adverse childhood experiences.

Tools for Making Vibrant Videos by Jaimie Hoffman and T&L Innovations is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Learn Moodle 3.5 Basics
This free course is designed for anybody who wants to use the Moodle learning platform for teaching, whether it be in a school, a university, a company or just personal interest!

The four-week course is also a great opportunity to connect with the vibrant Moodle community dedicated to sharing resources, ideas and anything that could help inspire better teaching practices everywhere.

The courses are designed for educators interested in a graduate certificate professional development program, not a mathematics teaching license/certification.

Our students include:

Title I math teachers

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Lead math teachers
Special education teachers

We offer online classes and graduate certificates, for educators, trainers, nurses, instructional designers, classroom teachers, math specialists, reading teachers ... anyone courageous enough to look up from their professional ruts ready to learn something new.

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback, which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke.

That was just one of the many extensions, add-ons and hacks for the Google ecosystem shared at a pair of sessions packed to the rafters at the Spring CUE 2018 conference in Palm Springs, Calif.

A couple of years ago, I saw a picture on Facebook that stopped me in my tracks: It was the classroom of Michigan high school English teacher Rebecca Malmquist. It looked like a living room. Like a place you’d go to curl up and read a book, take a nap, or have a really good conversation. And yet it was a classroom.

Designed for educators and trainers interested in experiencing game-based learning and assessment. Explore quests, incentives such as badges, the core tenants of game-based learning and how it supports the inquiry process. Get your game on and gamify learning!

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The courses are designed for educators interested in a graduate certificate professional development program, not a mathematics teaching license/certification.

Our students include:

• Title I math teachers
• Math interventionists
• Elementary and middle school math teachers
• Mathematics coaches
• Mathematics resource teachers
• Lead math teachers
• Special education teachers

Looking for a template to get your students started on a project? We’ve found some great Google Docs and Slides templates to use as they are or change up to match your classroom.

What puts leaders at risk of failure is that too many of them believe they have to be experts at every single one of those responsibilities. After all, they were hired to lead? This is where we need to foster a change in mindset, because no one can meet all of the demands of leadership by themselves. And no one, needs to be an expert at everything. What leaders need is the belief that they can meet those demands by working collaboratively with their staff and school community.