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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. They brought in a panel of students to ask about their experience with BYOD.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

The general success of Google as a platform model (Classroom, Music, YouTube, Search, Chromebooks, Chrome OS, etc.). District-level BYOD programs. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Ease of publishing (e.g., blogs, social media, podcasting) to promote conversation and thinking around what’s possible in education.