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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Credly, for example, was acquired for $200 million in January 2022, which represented a valuation multiple of 15.1x LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. LTM revenue. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. However, I’d probably lean toward Kenneth Galbraith’s 1972 (2nd ed.)

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. However, I’d probably lean toward Kenneth Galbraith’s 1972 (2nd ed.) Student Affairs'

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more.

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A trend to watch: teaching classes from one campus to another

Bryan Alexander

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. It’s been slow to develop – I co-taught classes like this in 1999 and 2001 – but some new projects look promising. Here are some examples.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

A useful example of flow from Diane Ackerman’s Deep Play: “In Bone Games , climber Rob Schultheis recalls how he felt descending a mountain after a harrowing near-death fall: “The person I became on Neva was the best possible version of myself, the person I should have been throughout my life. Livingstone 2001). (13).

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent.