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Remind is a service for sending text messages to your students without having to reveal your real phone number. I’ve been recommending and using it for years. One of my favorite aspects of Remind is that I can schedule and …

Virtual labs can be an important element in institutional efforts to expand access to lab-based courses to more and different groups of students, as well as efforts to establish contingency plans for natural disasters or other interruptions of campus activities.…

A Los Angeles Times survey of 45 Southern California school districts found profound differences in distance learning among children attending school districts in high-poverty communities, like Maria’s in Coachella Valley, and those in more affluent ones, like Cooper’s in Las …

Google’s new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college.

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-higher-education-certificate-project-management-data-analyst.html…

Learn how online education differs from traditional classrooms while you develop your own personal plan and strategies for online learning success. In this five-week course, you explore the fundamentals of the learning process and various models of online courses to …

If there was a publically-funded (important imo) national MOOC provider in Canada, say in the form of an inter-provincial institutional consortium, could that have been in a position to help the wider post-secondary system respond more nimbly to the fall …

These were written as quick, readable introductions to the many theorists who have shaped the world of learning.

https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html…

The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to …

Your inbox holds plenty of sensitive information. Here are some alternatives that put your correspondence under lock and key.

https://www.wired.com/story/tired-of-gmail-try-a-privacy-first-email-provider…

What makes a good instructional video? What does the research say, and how can it help us think about organising the content of our videos?

https://teachthinkblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/what-makes-a-good-instructional-video/…

I’ve named my list ‘personal learning tools’ because I think of learning as an activity that blends my own activities as a ‘student’ with those as a ‘teacher’. It’s a practice that thinks of learning as immersive and ongoing; I …

Five interesting things to pay attention to on Microsoft Teams.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/08/five-features-of-microsoft-teams-to-note.html…

Pixel is a little sandbox for consumer AI, so gives us insights into the way technology is moving and therefore the way online learning will move.

https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/pixel-is-powerful-portal-personal.html…

Canada Learning Code, a non-profit organization that promotes digital literacy education, has unveiled a new national computer science education framework designed to serve students from kindergarten to Grade 12.

https://betakit.com/canada-learning-code-launches-k-12-computer-science-education-framework/…