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As edtech crowds up, Campuswire bets big on real-time learning

TechCrunch

Founded by Tade Oyerinde in 2018, Campuswire is a virtual solution for any teacher who wants to digitize their internal classroom communications, from Q&A time to the lecture itself. As professors moved online, lectures moved to Zoom or tools built atop of Zoom. The strategy, for the most part, has worked.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students.

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Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech

TechCrunch

million in October to bring digital learning to college universities. The startup wants to make big lecture-style classes feel more intimate, and thinks digitizing everything from the professor monologues to side conversations between students is the way to go. So it might as well run it through our platform.”. “No

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Harvard and MIT created edX , an online learning platform with great content. edX currently offers HarvardX, MITx and BerkeleyX classes online for free.

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Engageli nabs $33M more for its collaborative video-based teaching platform

TechCrunch

“At first the priority was on the best synchronous experience,” Avida said in an interview, of the priorities of universities when it came to remote learning. “Now everyone is much more focused on multi-modality.” ” Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely.

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KaiPod Learning thinks ‘learning pods’ are here to stay

TechCrunch

Now, nearly a year after the first pods popped up, one startup coming out of Y Combinator has a fresh take on the role that the emerging learning model plays in schooling. Tired of ‘Zoom University’? A WeWork for education?