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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

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Many New Ideas are Quite Old

Mistakengoal.com

It’s very common for us to worry about the effect of technology on our personal lives and psyches. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. We must, therefore, be sure that technology serves the fundamental purposes of higher education.”

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dave’s keynotes in the last couple of years have centred around how coming to know is a messy, imprecise process at once intensely individual and necessarily embedded in a community - Rhizomatic Learning. I developed their MA in Lifelong Learning programme. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.

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