Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations.

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Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

An Asynchronous Learning Community is one where students learn together bound by some component–often a goal, topic, or learning space–rather than time (i.e., Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own. at the same time). ” Reflect.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

Colleges around the country have shut down and moved teaching online, and no one knows when it will be safe to reopen and resume normal operations. That reality was highlighted during a live online discussion EdSurge held this week in partnership with Bryan Alexander’s Future Trends Forum.

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Education Policies Course Trends 121

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning. Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom. Self-Paced Online Courses For Teacher. Universal Design and Accessibility for Online Learning. IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent. College Readiness Math MOOC.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Concerns about the content, or even the variable pace, of personalized learning derive from a middle-class educational ideal that is outdated and misses the point, says Trace Pickering, proponent of personalized learning, leader of Education Reimagined and co-founder of Iowa BIG, an experience-based high school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Yet only 50 percent said they have adequate solutions and strategies to help. According to our top Next newsletter contributors, the topics of student debt, innovative practices in community colleges, and online learning design continue to grab readers’ attention. Check out how they did it—and why they’ll use Slack again.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

K-12 Blended & Online Learning. Teaching Library Research Strategies. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 4: Curriculum. Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom. Margaret’s Episcopal School via edX.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Monday, April 27th at 5pm edWeb Webinar: Getting Started with Game-Based Learning , Are you curious about game-based learning, but don’t know where to begin? This webinar will cover what to look for in a game, where to get good games for learning, and strategies to integrate games into the system of a classroom.

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Libraries Game-Based Learning lynda.com Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Steve Hargadon Library 2.014 Conference Founder and Co-Chair CONNECTED LIBRARIAN DAY SCHEDULE (US-Eastern Daylight Time) For full details and any last-minute updates, be sure to follow the live schedule at: [link] Tuesday, October 7 3:30pm Welcome and About the Landscape with Britten Follett, Joyce Valenza, Ross Todd & Shannon Miller 4:00pm Heidi (..)

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Blended learning is a learning model that combines digital and face-to-face learning experiences. ” (6).

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

On February 16th we held the second Future Trends Forum. Revolution sees 2012 as a critical year (“the Magic Year”) when forces really came together, including, but not limited to, MOOCs. I followed up by asking which strategies the academic elite will use to maintain the system it presides over for the next decade.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. Eszter Csorba-Simon, Ms.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

They released a white paper yesterday called “Ideas For Designing An Affordable New Educational Institution,” where they lay out a framework for essentially a new class of university that would take advantage of various trends that have emerged in the past few years. There is nothing brand-new in the proposal.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway. These dynamics are at the center of what my colleagues and I have been studying in our recent research with employers exploring this new landscape for workplace learning.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

“Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” ” “Examining Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity” by Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen. ” That is, Marion Technical College.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The organization is worried that virtual schools – pretty much utter failures – are giving charters a bad rap. ” Can people please read Seymour Papert before launching their learn-to-code product and/or writing PR for it? “U.S.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Reader, they were not.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Foreign faculty and researchers traveling to Canada to work on projects at public universities and affiliated research institutions will be allowed to stay for up to 120 days without a work permit as part of a new Global Skills Strategy announced Monday by Canada’s government.” Don’t.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” Via the Journal Sentinel : “More than 300 Kettle Moraine parents sign petition against online learning platform.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). To borrow from Jello Biaffra, “MOOCs aren’t dead, they just deserve to die.” Viva la VR revolución!

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