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As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn’t.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/health/school-learning-online-education.html…

We need to gather as much data as we can so we can build on this and implement it in the long term. This will ensure that, first of all, we don’t go back to the old way of doing …

There are plenty of online tools for removing image backgrounds. Once the image background is removed you can then upload the new version of the image to your presentation. Here are some free tools you can use to remove image …

Good discussion and review of a work futures study Ahead By A Decade: Employment in 2030 published last week by the Brookfield Institute in comparison with similar work done by the “Canadian Occupational Projection System” (COPS).

http://higheredstrategy.com/work-in-2030/

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This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like.

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/onlineteaching/…

Microsoft Teams has features like a virtual classroom in which there are virtual classes for learning. Chat and video conference interactions, to task submissions and quizzes. Everything makes Microsoft Teams a comfortable place to study in virtual classrooms. However, still …

We’re seeking and scrolling in the dark. We’re doing this literally, as we sit up at 2 a.m. in our bedrooms, scrolling and clicking and unable to sleep. And figuratively, clicking through mazes of media messages on social media, pushing …

Just Read is a Chrome extension that can help you turn your online reading into a pleasurable experience. It provides you with a distraction-free environment where you can focus on the content of your articles. With a single click, Just …

MoodleNet version 1.0 has launched. It’s “a new open social media platform for educators, initially focused on the collaborative curation of collections of open resources. MoodleNet will be an integral part of the Moodle ecosystem, sustainably empowering communities of educators …

In May 2020, Patricia Lapointe, pedagogical counsellor at Cégep Limoilou, interviewed (at a distance!) 2 teachers from her college about their experience with the emergency modifications that had to be made to their courses in the context of the COVID-19 …

We are constantly being told that AI will be omnipresent in the coming years and that the education sector must absolutely comprehend this technology  in order to prepare the adults of tomorrow. But what are the exploitable avenues of exploration? …

Teachers and others keeping up with their professional development need to do far more than take the occasional class. And John Spencer writes here, “teachers all over the world are meeting in small groups, doing book studies to refine their …