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Edsurge
OCTOBER 11, 2021
For many of these students, the closure of their schools created time to learn, perhaps for the first time, about subjects and issues that interested them. For many of these students, the closure of their schools created time to learn, perhaps for the first time, about subjects and issues that interested them. She was not alone.
Edsurge
JULY 25, 2017
And she makes the case for why free online courses like hers—which are known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs—might still lead to a revolution in higher education, even though the hype around them has died down. Our bodies, after all, were evolved to master survival in nature, rather than staring at glowing bullet points on a screen.
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Hack Education
JUNE 15, 2018
I don’t know how familiar this group is with Skinner – he’s certainly a name that those working in educational psychology have heard of. Unlike Freud, who was concerned with the subconscious mind, behaviorists like Skinner were interested in – well, as the name suggests – behaviors. Observable behaviors.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 21, 2016
I find etymology – the history of words’ origins, their changing meanings – to be quite useful in situating my own language, my own ideas, and to ground these ideas not just in whatever what’s on my mind at the moment, but in their historical origins. The legacies of language and culture persist. Deliberate.
Hack Education
JUNE 15, 2017
I will not be assigning penance today – although as a scholar of history and culture, I do want you (all of us, really) to think about what we’ve done; to think about what we’ve said; to think about the stories we tell about the future of technology and education. I’m interested in what we believe technology will do.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 16, 2016
In many contexts – like open content, open educational resources, open source software, open access, and open data – “open” means “free plus permissions.” There were fifteen or so people from around the world in the room and we were talking about open courseware. Nobody over there cares.”
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
” By centering these two conditions, by taking them seriously as scholars and practitioners, I believe we can crack open some of the crises that we are experiencing, in higher education and beyond, always recognizing as George Siemens reminded us yesterday, of complexities. It’s always sunny in education technology.
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