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Bridging MOOCs, Smart Teaching, and AI: A Decade of Evolution Toward a Unified Pedagogy
Bo Yuan, Jiazi Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14266 https://

Bridging MOOCs, Smart Teaching, and AI: A Decade of Evolution Toward a Unified Pedagogy
Over the past decade, higher education has evolved through three distinct paradigms: the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the integration of Smart Teaching technologies into classrooms, and the rise of AI-enhanced learning. Each paradigm is intended to address specific challenges in traditional education: MOOCs enable ubiquitous access to learning resources; Smart Teaching supports real-time interaction with data-driven insights; and generative AI offers personalized feedback a…

Enhancing Physics Hand-on Lab through Online Educational Tools
Marina Babayeva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16193 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Enhancing Physics Hand-on Lab through Online Educational Tools
The increasing availability of digital tools for education offers significant opportunities to enhance teaching practices and student engagement. This study presents a structured categorization of online educational tools based on their core functionalities, including content creation, assessment, classroom management, and collaboration. A pilot implementation of selected tools was conducted in secondary-level science education, followed by a refinement phase to address usability and integratio…

eduGAIN is expanding across Africa! 🌍
Five new countries: 🇹🇬 Togo, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇬🇭 Ghana, and 🇹🇿 Tanzania have joined, bringing the total on the continent to 14. 🎉
At the heart of this progress is eduID.africa (by UbuntuNet Alliance & WACREN under #AfricaConnect3), and now more researchers and students can now access global services with one trusted identity.

Five new African members join eduGAIN! | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Today, online services are crucial for research and education. These can be for e-learning, teaching and conferencing, scientific collaboration, analysing and sharing data, accessing journals and libraries. Access to these resources is usually controlled with a user name and password. As the number and variety of services expand, often being delivered by service providers outside