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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. Then, in real time, students and I would engage in extended discussions of the themes I’d covered in my recordings. My own experience teaching at The New School, a small Manhattan college, supports this style of instruction.

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

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Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology. Colleges are increasingly using adaptive technology in large online or blended courses to help students learn at their own pace. Instead he wants to talk about humanity.

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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. Wikidot lets you share knowledge, resources, files, links, and discussions within a platform that can be as private or public as you want.