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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). At this point in the Forum we broke into small group discussions. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). A: Jim hoped so.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). At this point in the Forum we broke into small group discussions. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). A: Jim hoped so.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Guardian : “US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. 2006, Tuition and Fees Up 63%.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Guardian’s Julia Carrie Wong summarizes the comments : “Zuckerberg: white male Facebook board member’s Trump support provides ‘diversity’ ” Also via Wong : “Peter Thiel once wrote a book calling date rape ‘belated regret’ ” Thrilling that these are the folks bankrolling ed-tech, no?

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

Hack Education

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOCs : A Postmortem” by Jonathan Rees. Meanwhile, Campus Technology offers “7 Tips for Listing MOOCs on Your Résumé.” ” Via the Backchannel : “A Mike Flynn -Approved Hate Group Is Teaching Cops to Track Muslims.”