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Demand for online higher education is at record levels – yet the model remains a mystery for many. For David Newton, the only mystery is why everyone thinks it's so unusual
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Peter Mellow
May 7, 2013 7:02 PM
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Echo360 has put $60,000 up for grabs in its annual research grants program, which is currently accepting applications for 2013.
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Kim Flintoff
May 6, 2013 9:55 PM
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Innovator. Australian ‘ed-tech’ startup innovator, Smart Sparrow, has launched an world-first adaptive eLearning platform
If you run a classroom, school, district, or country, you need to know how to properly integrate technology in education. This should help.
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Kim Flintoff
April 27, 2013 8:49 PM
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Kim Flintoff
April 25, 2013 1:43 AM
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This presentation examines the metaliteracy framework developed by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. Metaliteracy will be examined as a reframing of information l
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from Active learning Approaches
April 19, 2013 9:33 PM
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Infuse Learning is a free student response system that works with any Internet-connected device including iPads and Android tablets. Infuse Learning allows teachers to push questions, prompts, and quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. In an Infuse Learning room a teacher can give students a wide variety of formats in which to response to a question or prompt. Students can reply to prompts and questions in standard multiple choice, true/false, and short answer formats. But Infuse Learning also offers an option for students to reply by creating drawings or diagrams on their iPads, Android tablets, or on their laptops.
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Kim Flintoff
April 19, 2013 7:42 PM
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New York City-based ThinkMap‘s word learning platform, Vocabulary.com, demonstrates some solid improvement on learning analytics and basic gamification applied toward simple online learning tasks. We found it surprisingly addictive, and thought the “Word in the Wild” feature is particularly innovative for learners to see words in actual usage and draw inferential clues. ThinkMap’s customers are squarely middle school and high school students right now, but we think there will be opportunity with the personalization algorithms and mechanics they are developing to swim upstream to higher ed. In addition, there’s probably not much of a jump to foreign language learning.
Slides from an invited speech given to the Technology in Higher Education Conference, National Convention Centre, Doha, Qatar. 16 April, 2013.
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from The 21st Century
April 12, 2013 9:05 PM
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"We need to teach knowledge or content in context with the tasks and activities the students are undertaking. Our students respond well to real world problems. Our delivery of knowledge should scaffold the learning process and provide a foundation for activities. As we know from the learning pyramid content delivered without context or other activity has a low retention rate."
Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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Kim Flintoff
April 11, 2013 7:36 AM
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Exploring digital literacies with our students means that we must we willing to reflect on our own digital practices and digital identity/identities. This prese
Education 3.0 is a term that has been used to describe a level of transformative capabilities and practices for education in the 21st century. Professor Derek Keats, of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa,[1] and his co-author Jan Philipp Schmidt, FreeCourseWare Manager at University of the Western Cape, South Africa, used the term in 2007 to apply to the use and impact on education of collaborative and personalized learning, reusable learning content, and recognition of prior learning (RPL) whether by formal or informal means. Keats' explorations were focused on higher education.[2] Dr. John Moravec at the University of Minnesota broadens this view, and describes Education 3.0 as a product necessary to support what he labels "Society 3.0" - a near future paradigm of social co-constructivism, ambient technology, and propelled by continuous innovation at all levels of society.[3]
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One of the educational potentials of computing is the ability to tailor learning experiences to the skills of individual students. A vocabulary-building site, Vocabulary.com, is an example of that potential, some educators say.
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May 7, 2013 10:15 PM
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If you thought that distance learning was a product of today, then you would be mistaken. In fact, the first distance learning program on record took place in 1728, when a local teacher by the name of Caleb Phillips advertised shorthand correspondence lessons offered by mail! By 1800, the growth of the U.S. Postal Service brought about an increase in the number of distance learning correspondence courses in the country.
In this post I examine and define instructional design, and share why it’s essential to the development of online courses. "Design brings forth what would not come naturally" Klaus Krippendorff De...
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We've selected a few that we know to be some of the most popular screencasting tools in use today by teachers, students, and many others.
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Kim Flintoff
April 29, 2013 11:07 PM
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Online learning has been trumpeted by everyone from academics to politicians to venture capitalists as a way to improve access to education. But now a novel idea is emerging from a prominent group of digital education supporters: you can’t learn everything online.The Minerva Project is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of old and new in which there is no campus and students take all of their courses online, but live together in traditional college dorms. The school—named after the Roman goddess of wisdom—is still in its planning stages and isn’t scheduled to open until the fall of 2015.
If you're looking to harness the power of education technology, you should probably know what it means to be a digital teacher in a modern classroom.
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April 23, 2013 9:56 PM
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No size limits, no cloud: Hands-on with BitTorrent's new file syncing software.
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April 19, 2013 9:31 PM
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Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run.
Using Evernote in Education This livebinder has websites and information to help you to use Evernote in your classrooms.
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Web resources designed to help you embrace Moodle...
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Kim Flintoff
April 12, 2013 6:50 AM
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Streitfeld spoke with Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, “The CourseSmart system has other potential problems; students could easily game the highlighting or note-taking functions.
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from Transformational Leadership
April 11, 2013 2:04 AM
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Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how you can improve how you navigate future scenarios...
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Kim Flintoff
April 10, 2013 10:32 PM
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Most educators believe technology makes them more imaginative, creative, and productive at work, according to a recent study, Humans and Machines: The Role of People in Technology-Driven Organizations, from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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