Here is an updated list of the best free online courses of all time. Now there are over 8,000+ massive open online courses from around 750 universities worldwide. This can be daunting to the millions of learners around the world …
Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans
IBM’s famous Watson computing system—which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011—is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. As part of a new IBM philanthropic initiative, the supercomputer is helping to power a searchable database of open educational …
To Flip or Not to Flip?
A Harvard professor no longer thinks students benefit from skipping lectures for his rigorous course. Experts weigh in on what his decision says about the flipped classroom and other alternative learning approaches.
Presentation of the Week: UDL: A Deeper Dive
…
How digital DNA could help you make better health choices
…
8 Ways UX Design Theory Transformed My Approach to Course Design
UX Design Theory can teach us a lot about how to build community, communicate clearly, and set up effective systems as we design our courses. The following is an exploration 8 ways UX Design Theory can change the way we …
The college lecture is dying. Good riddance
Another advantage of in-person lectures is that students are privy to other’s questions and viewpoints. Critics might argue that more online learning means they have fewer opportunities for exposure to different perspectives, for engrossing themselves in thoughtful debate.
https://qz.com/1050869/the-college-lecture-is-dying-and-good-riddance/…
Snapmail Allows You to Send Self-Destructing Gmail Messages
Snapmail is a Chrome extension that allows you to send messages just like you might otherwise to recipients that will destruct in 60 seconds.
http://lifehacker.com/snapmail-allows-you-to-send-self-destructing-gmail-mess-1802795114…
A free, teacher-less university in France is schooling thousands of future-proof programmers
Since there are no teachers, it is up to students to figure things out. Everything is graded by peers. Students manage their time how they want.
What Personalized Learning Is Not
Instead of trying to define it, perhaps it would be more beneficial to take a look at some of the misconceptions running wild amongst the education community, and consider what personalized learning is NOT.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-09-01-what-personalized-learning-is-not…
Cambridge considers typed exams as handwriting worsens
University launches consultation over concerns students reliant on computers are losing the ability to write by hand.
The Google Drive app for PC and Mac is being shut down in March
Google now has two fairly new software tools for backing up your data and/or accessing files in the cloud. There’s Backup and Sync, the all-encompassing consumer app that replaces both the standalone Google Drive and Google Photos Uploader apps. It …
How to use Evernote to organize your life
Finding a great note-taking app is like finding the perfect pair of jeans. They’re hard to come across, but once you do, you’ll always stick with them. Some people might still prefer the old, foolproof method of taking notes with …
Blended Learning with Microsoft Office Mix for PowerPoint
Office Mix is a simple free screen recording add-in from Microsoft that integrates directly into PowerPoint. Combined with a flipped classroom pedagogy that includes problem-based learning, integrating this tool into my workflow allowed me to produce learning material that dramatically …
5 things we learned from one of the world’s biggest surveys of young people
Almost 25,000 people aged between 18 and 35 from 186 countries and territories took part in the Global Shapers Annual Survey 2017. It showed that 55.9% of respondents believe their views are not being taken into account before important decisions …