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Many-to-One vs. One-to-Many: An Opinionated Guide to Educational Technology — The American Magazine

Many-to-One vs. One-to-Many: An Opinionated Guide to Educational Technology — The American Magazine | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
There are many horses in the educational technology race. Which ones are worth betting on?
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Online Education for Boomers - Wall Street Journal

Online Education for Boomers - Wall Street Journal | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Wall Street JournalOnline Education for BoomersWall Street JournalBut while the technology to run online education programs is getting less expensive and easier to employ, some education experts argue that many services don't focus enough on how to...
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Ten Ideas for Exercises in the Virtual Classroom — Web Conference Guru

Ten Ideas for Exercises in the Virtual Classroom — Web Conference Guru | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
If you have either attended or facilitated training in a virtual classroom you know that maintaining a high level of interactivity is key to keeping participants engaged.  Here are ten ideas for exercises to try in your next virtual classroom...
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Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Online learning is quickly gaining in importance in U.S. higher education, but little rigorous evidence exists as to its effect on student learning outcomes. In "Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities:

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Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET): 25 Places to Find Free Computer Science Classes Online

Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET): 25 Places to Find Free Computer Science Classes Online | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Thanks to Elena Verlee

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Three Free Tools to Create Free Study Groups Online

Three Free Tools to Create Free Study Groups Online | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
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Online teacher connects with her students

Online teacher connects with her students | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Tami Caldwell's classroom is a loft that looks out through a bank of windows onto the calm waters of a lake.

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Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
An online flash puzzle game where you build whimsical machines to solve each level. Save your contraptions and share them with your friends. Free!
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Online Learning: Teaching Critical Thinking through Online Discussions

Online Learning: Teaching Critical Thinking through Online Discussions | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

I have just read an article by Carol B. MacKnight called 'Teaching Critical Thinking through Online Discussions'. I was drawn to this article because I teach online and I have started using online discussions more and more.

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Online Video Lectures and Course Materials — Open Yale Courses

Online Video Lectures and Course Materials — Open Yale Courses | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

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OpenClassroom

Just found Stanford's Open Classroom - free, online lectures for web applications, databases and UNIX.)...

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Open Culture

Open Culture | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Your guide to FREE educational media. Find thousands of free online courses, audio books, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, movies and more.
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Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom - Video on TED.com

TED Talks In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ -- and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast.
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Quality Assurance & Enhancement in Online Learning » Resources

Quality Assurance & Enhancement in Online Learning » Resources | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Useful links.

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Educational Technology - Technology tools for learning and assessment: Online Learning and Disruptive Innovation stands to revolutionize K-12 Schools

Educational Technology - Technology tools for learning and assessment: Online Learning and Disruptive Innovation stands to revolutionize K-12 Schools | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Online Learning and Disruptive Innovation stands to revolutionize K-12 Schools.

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The Rise of the SuperProfessor

The Rise of the SuperProfessor | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

For colleges and universities, the great age of experimentation is now upon us.

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12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free

12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

The future of education is fast approaching...

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Brain Games, Brain Training & Brain Fitness — Fitbrains.com

Brain Games, Brain Training & Brain Fitness — Fitbrains.com | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Play over 30 Brain Games, start brain training today and improve your memory with scientifically designed Brain Fitness Games at Fitbrains.com!
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Educational Technology Guy: Paper, we don't need no paper! Tools and tips for going paperless

Educational Technology Guy: Paper, we don't need no paper! Tools and tips for going paperless | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Going paperless - it's good for the trees, good for budgets, increases efficiency and organization, and makes life easier in many ways. But how do you go paperless?

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Online and Teacherless Aren’t Synonymous

Online and Teacherless Aren’t Synonymous | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Three items in recent ed tech news caught my eye this morning, more for their implications than their news value.

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Difference between Online Education VS. Traditional Education

Difference between Online Education VS. Traditional Education | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

How diverse are these two techniques of teaching, and do either prove much better for the student?

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Educating for Democracy: Is Online Learning Learning? ll

Educating for Democracy: Is Online Learning Learning? ll | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Scarce educational funds are being spent on technological solutions to human problems while many of the human problems are being dismissed as technological.

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9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator | Online Universities

9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator | Online Universities | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Some of these skills, of course, are holdovers from the 20th century which have grown more refined or essential as the calendar clicked. But education professionals still tout them as desirable — if not outright necessary — components of contemporary classrooms. Probably more so than any other era of academic history. So they’re "new" when it comes to importance, if not concept.

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A great blog post describing different skills that are important to be an effective teacher in this day in age. Gives a lot of great tools and advice for teachers to stay connected and use new tools they made not have used in the classroom before.

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Should Students Use a Pseudonym or Their Real Name When Working Online in the Classroom | blog.classroomteacher.ca

Should Students Use a Pseudonym or Their Real Name When Working Online in the Classroom | blog.classroomteacher.ca | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Using a generic student name allow students to be judged based on the merit of their ideas, as opposed to preconceived notions of who they are.

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