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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Consider the boy in San Francisco whose maths teacher simply doesn’t teach very well. Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Consider the boy in San Francisco whose maths teacher simply doesn’t teach very well. Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams.

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Online Classes vs Traditional Classes – Find the Best for You

learnWorlds

In the case of distance learning, it may be most appropriate at colleges and universities. Research data consistently indicate that students strongly prefer distance education. They don’t believe that they sacrifice a quality education for the convenience of utilizing distance learning. Example of LearnWorlds LMS.

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10 best LMS software of 2020

Ed App

When creating courses, instructors have many options for creating a curriculum (with lessons and a certificate of completion of the course), which add frequently asked questions and basic information about the course (duration, lectures, video hours, user level, etc.). Sakai is used for teaching, research, and collaboration.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005).

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Podcast 24: DNA of High-Impact Learning – With Paul Morton of CrossKnowledge

Talented Learning

So I think we find high-impact learning in the difference between two wonderful terms: pedagogy and andragogy. (Or ” That means, if you design adult learning the same way you teach children, it’s not high-impact learning. Remember 20-odd years ago, when people went crazy for distance learning ?

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Teaching Online Courses – 60 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

I received an inquiry about resources that would help instructors who are about to move into teaching online courses. If you are going to teach a course online or run an online learning event or an online conference, then there’s even more to being successful at that. And that’s only a single session.