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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses. Learn more about this process in this accompanying blog post.). Lumen instruments OER for measurement at the individual learning outcome level.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

MOOCs are just one outcome of these and, in their current form, they are largely a transitory product of their time. This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

MOOCs are just one outcome of these and, in their current form, they are largely a transitory product of their time. This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4

Bryan Alexander

In fact, the frequency of treating alone accounts for most of the variation in learning outcomes…” Plug this into the digital world, and. “learning analytics will certainly be in widespread use by the time [this book] is published” (1796). ” (2247).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Aaron Swartz, 2008. Course Signals.

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