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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. The other spoke of access, public financing, inequalities.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

Advancing Digital Equity and Scaling Innovation: Equal access to high-speed internet at home and at school remains a problem that educators can easily identify, but for which solutions are elusive. Educators see VR as a way to give students experiences that could promote empathy and expand access to novel locations.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Either way. as well as honored to be here.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Some of this is what Jane Mayer describes in her 2016 book Dark Money – the powerful and secretive networks of right-wing billionaire activists. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar. But the results are not uniformly positive.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” The states in question: Texas and Nevada.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” Where Are They Now?” Lumen Learning has raised $3.75