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#SLTeachMeet – inspiration, ideas and plain speaking

Last week some of the team at MediaCore UK had the opportunity to attend #SLTeachMeet which took place in London. As a sponsor we were delighted to be able to observe this brilliant evening… Read More

Canadian Cloud – local MediaCore data storage for schools and universities

Our newly launched Canadian Cloud means any Canadian education institution can now choose to manage, organise and share their videos using our platform. Until recently MediaCore, like many cloud-based services, stored customer data… Read More

“Don’t threaten innovation with a stick” Principal Greg Green spells out what leaders need to flip

Principal Greg Green is renowned for flipping his school, Clintondale High School in Michigan. The impetus for him was… Read More

MOOCs make professors dust off the cobwebs

Sometimes a spring clean is what’s required and teaching a MOOC appears to be a great way to look at your teaching practice afresh.  Recent research by The Chronicle of Higher Education… Read More

Is the 95% MOOC dropout rate the big issue?

This week we’ve been thinking about MOOCs, (Massive Open Online Courses), which have become more established in the past year – click here if you need a quick overview. One of… Read More

Flipping the Classroom for Younger Students

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Ben Rouse is a secondary maths teacher and head of faculty in… Read More

Student Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom – New Research

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We’re always interested to hear about new research into flipped learning and we recently caught up with Graham Johnson, a high school teacher at Okanagan Mission Secondary in British Columbia, Canada. He’s just completed… Read More

MediaCore is a Cool Tool Award Finalist

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The third annual EdTech Digest Awards Recognition Program shortlisted MediaCore for the Cool Tool Awards. MediaCore was nominated in the category of new product or service. Read More

Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs

A MOOC is an online course that is delivered over the web and aimed at large-scale interactive participation. MOOCs provide online videos, reading materials, and problem sets and can also include interactive forums where… Read More

Announcing the Blackboard Building Block

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MediaCore has developed a Blackboard Building Block that helps you embed MediaCore videos into Blackboard effortlessly. Once you have configured the MediaCore Building Block, Blackboard will be connected directly to your MediaCore site. At… Read More