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Many New Ideas are Quite Old

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Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. ” That quote comes from a 2001 Chronicle of Higher Education article but the thought has been expressed by many people. Of course, the broad threads of these worries are quite old.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.

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