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

Bryan Alexander

study, Going Digital , on faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Re: maturity, by 2004 there was widespread LMS deployment, but relatively shallow use (relatively few classes, few features and functions used; 80% of activity in 20% of application). For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving.

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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. The quotation is from 2012. 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. Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. Or MOOCs even. The scientists?

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

I bet Victor Frankenstein, whose own father had carelessly dismissed his son’s interests in the study of alchemy, would have understood their appeal, and he too would have been curious about what great powers the ads in the back pages of comics guaranteed. What are MOOCs, for example? Doing so will even raise your credit score.