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As College Innovation Efforts Grow, So Do Warnings of a ‘McDonaldization’ of Higher Ed

Edsurge

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. In 2013, Amherst considered experimenting with massive open online courses (also known as MOOCs) by forming a partnership with a nonprofit called edX.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

This is especially true because many people think that technology or the study of technology is new, perhaps beginning with the microcomputer explosion of the early 80s or the development of the World Wide Web in the early 90s. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Technology in U.S.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

This is especially true because many people think that technology or the study of technology is new, perhaps beginning with the microcomputer explosion of the early 80s or the development of the World Wide Web in the early 90s. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Technology in U.S.

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

TeachThought - Learn better.

The study of teaching adults. A term coined by Stewart Hase, heautogogy is the study of self-directed learning. ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.”

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

High School social studies teacher. The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims. They’ve never known life without it, and it’s where they get all their information.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. It will offer researchers a giant trove of data to study. million children ?

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