It’s time for e-learning to become common place in public schools, starting with snow days.
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8 Best Practices for Moving Courses Online -- Campus Technology - 2 views
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I like how these suggestions are clearly laid out. Each seems common sense but crucial to being successful.
Turn snow days into e-learning days with these 6 simple steps | eSchool News | eSchool ... - 40 views
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Just because students are not at school doesn't mean the learning stops. What instead of mandating kids have internet access at home, there are pre-made activities that don't foresee the dependency on the Internet and instead, can be approved by a parent/guardian signature that such learning activities took place during the day off school for whatever reason.
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Online learning also helps teachers reduce their stress load. It provides a predictable avenue for educators to budget their curriculum goals with available teaching days. Finally, e-learning days provide students with academic consistency and predictability, eliminating any snow day confusion.
The Discussion Forum is Dead; Long Live the Discussion Forum - Hybrid Pedagogy - 74 views
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There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system and online learning platform from Blackboard to Moodle to Coursera.
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as though one relatively standardized interface can stand in for the many and varied modes of interaction we might have in a physical classroom
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The point is not to reproduce what occurs in the physical classroom, but to provide support for discussion that takes advantage of the digital environment.
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predetermined variables
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They do not have to be predetermined.
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"There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system and online learning platform from Blackboard to Moodle to Coursera."
Home - Global Online Academy - 26 views
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Share with John and Steve
Andy Kessler: Professors Are About to Get an Online Education - WSJ.com - 2 views
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For the same $7,000 a year that New York City spends per student on school buses, you can now get a master's from one of the most well-respected programs in the country.
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Students who worked with online content passed at a higher rate than classroom-only students, 91% to 60%
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Today's job market—whether you're designing new drugs, fracking for oil, writing mobile apps or marketing Pop Chips—requires graduates who can think strategically in real time, have strong cognitive skills, see patterns, work in groups and know their way around highly visual virtual environments. This is the same generation that grew up playing online games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but who are almost never asked to use their online skills in any classroom.
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Best Practices in Designing Online Courses - 66 views
MoodleShare - 11 views
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A place for Moodlers to share their Moodles. 145 courses and counting. New courses to be uploaded frequently. -
A repository of moodle courses that have been shared - open source courses for reuse. Includes subject areas and professional development courses.
course-builder - Course Builder - Google Project Hosting - 3 views
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Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic.
course-builder - Course Builder - Google Project Hosting - 11 views
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Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic.
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Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students.
Professors shouldn't be afraid of online learning (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views
Designing An Online Course - 7 views
ASCD Express 7.09 - Miller - 5 views
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Great mindbites consider in ALL learning
Clayton Christensen on disruption in online education - The Next Web - 37 views
Findings Turns Your Ebook Highlights Into Shared Reading Libraries - 103 views
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social commonplace book
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The Findings experience is centered around shared passages and user libraries.
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The act of highlighting a noteworthy passage in an ebook is being socialized by Findings, an online destination where readers can collect, share, discuss and discover such highlights from ebooks and web texts.
Online Education: Is It Right For You? [Infographic] - Edudemic - 86 views
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The popularity of online education is growing at a steady clip. Whether it's due to the weak economy, quality of online tools, or the price difference… online schools can't (and shouldn't) be ignored. Heck, Bill Gates thinks online education tools like Khan Academy are the wave of the future.
Stanford for Everyone: More Than 120,000 Enroll in Free Classes | MindShift - 136 views
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Love the notion of masses of people taking this course. Students submit questions and the community votes for the best ones that the professors answer. Education is changing before our very eyes. Are we watching? -
"making sure that they - and their professors - know how they're doing every step of the way."
