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t r u t h o u t | Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform
“This article is the first of a three-part series taken from a forthcoming book, Education and the Crisis of Public Values to be published by Peter Lang Publishing Group.”
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100 Intro Open Courses on Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Learn | Best Colleges Online
“While the classes you take through online college are a great resource, you can augment your learning by taking some time to see what entirely free courses are out there offered by universities. Taking these courses can be a great way to get a foundation of knowledge or expand on what you already know. Here are 100 open courses that are designed for beginners, so you can start your educational journey on the right foot.”
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Assessing Student Work in the Open Educational Resources Era — Campus Technology
“So, the big question as we try to understand what students learn becomes: How do we know what broad mix of learning experiences away from the teacher is best for learners (from among all the choices today)?”
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Authentic Education – Four Beliefs
1. Excellence in schooling requires a vigilant focus on learning – and, specifically, learning for understanding. 2. All education is local. 3. Schooling needs to be grounded in more authentic forms of learning. 4. Education succeeds if and only if everyone in schools gets constant and powerful feedback, and is obligated to seek it and consider it.
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50 Online University Professors on Twitter Worth Following – Online University Data
“The following 50 online university professors on Twitter worth following have a large number of followers for a reason — they are worth following!”
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