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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). Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. 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). Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). A: Jim hoped so.

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

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – 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.

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