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Teaching Remotely – What Educators Can Learn from One Another

January 13, 2021 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning

What can educators working in K-12, higher education and professional/online training learn from one another in order to more effectively teach remotely?

Welcome EdSurge Readers!

May 26, 2020 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Online Learning

For those of you visiting after reading my most recent piece in EdSurge about how to improve the quality of lectures in courses taught remotely, that article is actually part of a series, the rest of which will cover discussion and assessments/assignments. I’m not sure yet where the next two entries will be published, so […]

Video Last

May 4, 2020 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning

What can the backwards-design process offer teachers and professors eager to make remote teaching more effective for student learning?

MOOCs in 2015

January 5, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning, Online Learning Sources

Now that we’re a good three years past “The Year of the MOOC,” I decided to see how far we’ve come since the New York Times named 2012 after the massive open online course by looking at what it would take to put together a new One Year BA curriculum using free-learning resources available two […]

Esprit de Course

November 10, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning

Part of the professional test-design experience I’m trying to bring to MOOC development includes the generation of specific learning objectives (tied to overall course goals) that spell out exactly what students should know after being exposed to course materials such as lectures and reading. This type of detailed breakdown will be familiar not just to […]

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