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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In today’s examination system, when we consider the bloom taxonomy, bottom-level memorization occupies a dominant place, while comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are of less importance.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

schools in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis, but few have shown any indication that they’ll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group following last month’s massacre at a Florida high school.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Memos from HR.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” More research on MOOCs in the MOOC section above. More via Inside Higher Ed.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

So I am not here to tell you, based on my analysis of ed-tech “trends,” what new tools you should buy or what new tools you should incorporate into your teaching or what old tools you should discard. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). They aspire to be monopolies. ” Despite raising some $87.5

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com com : “Boy, 8, drives to McDonald’s after learning how online.” ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. ” Via Edsurge : “Why Language Learning Apps Haven’t Helped Struggling ELL Students.”