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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video. Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard,” says Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at New York University’s School of Continuing Studies, where he teaches blended courses.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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Colleges are increasingly using adaptive technology in large online or blended courses to help students learn at their own pace. Learning analytics tools now track the digital breadcrumbs that students leave everywhere from signing up for meal plans to completing online homework assignments.

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Wikispaces has closed. What are your alternatives?

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Thousands of teachers have used the free Wikispaces platform to share materials with students and colleagues, to run online classrooms, or as the virtual arm of a blended course. Wikispaces, one of education’s standout collaborative websites, closed at the end of June 2018.