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Marketplace trend update: 6 new products, teaching strategies, and learning initiatives

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Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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Can Analyzing Clicks in Digital Systems Predict Which Students Are Struggling? It Depends.

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Not surprisingly, courses that are online or blended use the LMS more heavily than those that are fully face-to-face. In addition, courses that have few graded assignments have little data on which to base a prediction until weeks into the semester, making early intervention difficult.”

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Coachin’ in the Classroom

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And then came coach training. As with teaching, I came to coaching late. I was skeptical about the role of coaching at first. I discovered that coaching is “partnering with [students] in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. I had to find out.

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Stanford course prepares educators for the new school year

eSchool News

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches this August with three online sessions.

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Coachin’ in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

And then came coach training. As with teaching, I came to coaching late. I was skeptical about the role of coaching at first. I discovered that coaching is “partnering with [students] in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. I had to find out.

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School Needs a Redesign, and Educators Can Lead the Way

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You enter and on the board is your first assignment: create something—a drawing, a model of a house, a sketch of a new product, a sculpture. And tells you your next assignment is to pick up the pieces (including yourself) and make something new. You’re not taking English or history or pre-calculus; the sign on the door says “Obstacles.”

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Professors Take Out Ads Protesting Their University’s Online Degree Programs

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But the two faculty unions, the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and the EMU Federation of Teachers, which represents adjuncts, say that the company is involved in many aspects of course design and could bring in outside online coaches for students without faculty oversight.