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shared by Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 04 Jul 16 - No Cached

on a global level there is an understanding that education needs to evolve to meet the needs of our students in a modern world
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it is interesting to note that the challenges faced at one phase of level exist just as much at later stage
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our knowledge of the processes of learning rather than our subject knowledge is what matters most
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Rather than a focus on what the students need to be taught we must focus on teaching our students how to learn
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an increasing shift towards students becoming creators of content
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staff reluctant to embrace new technologies
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education can benefit greatly from efforts to become more connected
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Universal Design for Learning
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Such a focus requires a new approach to curriculum design, one that identifies cross discipline skills and is inherently flexible
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shared by Sasha Thackaberry on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached

shared by Sasha Thackaberry on 07 Jul 14 - No Cached

While the number of students taking MOOCs has exploded in the past few years, experts are divided on what impact the courses have had on international education opportunities.
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Advocates and creators of massive open online courses – the free courses open to anyone with an Internet connection – have high hopes for how the classes can help those hungry for a U.S.-style education. 
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"Over time people began to feel that the excitement was really just hype."
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Most MOOC participants already have degrees and live in developed countries. "These online classes aren't really reaching the poor," Wildavsky says. "They aren't reaching the uneducated.
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"Courses requiring extremely specialized or expert knowledge grant people access to ideas and concepts that they might not ever encounter otherwise," Curtis Bonk, an education professor at Indiana University, said via email. "With such new learning opportunities, one’s sense of self or identity as a learner is enhanced.
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"It's easy to deflate the over-the-top rhetoric that has characterized the advent of MOOCs," Wildavsky wrote in a recent article. "But the developing world has much to gain from this new educational era."
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