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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

For example, currently two-thirds of community colleges have launched mobile apps, but CIOs largely don’t see the deployment as effective. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. Casey thought that might be the case, as a partial response.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Fantasy. .”

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Take iPads , for example. Or MOOCs even. “But I thought that if, as long as I didn’t let him in, he couldn’t tell me.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

It’s also a matter of a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, a business that Donald Trump and two associates founded in 2004. Just call your credit card company and ask for an extension on your line of credit, instructors purportedly told students. What are MOOCs, for example? What are we promising?