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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom by Jon on March 21, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Where do the most innovate ideas in learning come from?

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Social Learning Lessons: Tales from 7th Grade Biology

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We all know that lecture (aka The Big Talking Head) is one of the least effective ways to learn about a topic or master a skill. He gave us a lecture exactly once that entire school year. During that short lecture, Mr. Froelich explained that his class was different from other classes. I think Mr. Froelich would be proud.

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How To Facilitate Distance Learning In Your School Community

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COVID-19 has caused many in the higher education community to move their face-to-face lectures and meetings to Zoom or other online meeting platforms. [1] Take away the food and give them a laptop that’s live streaming their math teacher’s lesson on place value.

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The Flipped Learning Revolution — Coming to a Brain Near You?

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My colleague Jon Matejcek first covered it back in March in his article “ Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom.” Essentially, the idea is to upend the traditional teaching model of classroom lecture followed by personal practice at home. Nine months later, those numbers are 2,700 and 90.5

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Can Bill Gates Lead the Informal Learning Revolution?

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He also wants lectures to become homework and teacher tutoring to occur during class time. Some of Khan’s devoted following of teachers are already substituting his lectures for their own, assigning the videos as homework. Why formalize the classroom with forced lectures that engage some students and not others?

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

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In my free time, I enjoy reading, medical lectures, belly dancing and regular visits to my massage therapist. Adobe has a twitter widget for Captivate 5 that allows elearninger to ask a Q about a lesson from inside the.swf. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Can Games Transform the World?