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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

Edsurge

He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. Wesch posts videos of himself doing the "challenges" he poses to his students.

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The future of education in 2016, from the sharing economy to BYOD: my Future Trends Forum recording and materials

Bryan Alexander

Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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Khan Academy Has Inspired Imitations Across Disciplines. MEDKSL is the Latest.

Edsurge

“I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. Sharma has a background in technology and video production (he actively researches and writes about educational technology and knowledge translation) led him to consider how to bridge that divide. The TED Talk folks got it right,” he says.

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Twitter and the death of distance

Learning with 'e's

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Video One friend insists on telling me that “video is the new paper,” which drives me crazy, but is also a good probe for making us think about just how much people love video.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Swivl - Apparatus that lets you use an iPad to video record a lecture or presentation. Click here to see all of them.)

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Thoughts on Kevin Carey’s University of Everywhere

Bryan Alexander

Learners using them will rely on social media and video to collaborate in the learning process. It’s also silent on the library’s role of preserving and rendering access to the corpus of information. Academic libraries seem to fade away, in fact. Dave also wondered about college sports in this world.

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