Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

A Starter Kit For Instructional Designers When EdSurge columnist Amy Ahearn graduated from college in 2008, she had never heard of instructional design—let alone anticipate that she would soon have a career in it. Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies. Moreover, there is a sense that personal technologies encourage learners to be self-determined in their approach to education. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2017

It does so through a mix of technology, marketing practices, and capital investment, essentially loaning colleges its services in exchange for a share of tuition revenue over long-term contract periods. Since the company started in 2008, it has stayed focused on that one idea, and on serving only highly-selective colleges in the U.S.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Indeed, while colleges and universities continue to struggle financially, the dark days of 2008 seem like a distant memory for most of them. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Last week, a colleague asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Historical origins of the information age : I think it’s important to ground our understanding of technology by beginning…well, in the beginning.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. Technology offers itself as the solution. Not everywhere looks like Brandeis. I'm an ed-tech critic. billion.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. Which is dumb. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Among other things, Jim Groom is Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He is nicknamed the 'Reverend' (oh the irony), and is a purveyor of American pop culture, experimental educational technology and out-of-left-field philosophy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

Her research is focused in emerging technologies and their use in education and libraries. Her current research focuses on makerspaces and their subsequent technologies in libraries of all types and levels. She is also the faculty lead for the University of Michigan's Public Library Management MOOC courses at EdX.org.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

The Caribbean Educators Network (CEN) will be hosting a FREE Online Educators Conference (e-conference) from August 8-13th under the theme ''Open For Learning: Using Technology To Move Forward''. The theme captures the notion of openness through the use of technology as a way of advancing learning and professional development.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

technology. In his book On Complexity (2008), Edgar Morin identifies circular causality, of which the feedback loop is a type, as one of the core characteristics of the emerging science of complexity. Like the flipped technique, the JiTT technique is easy to understand and fairly easy to apply with the help of modern Web 2.0

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Horn insists that overuse hasn’t discredited the theory, which argues that established companies or organizations with high-priced offerings can lose out to competitors who take advantage of new technology, even if their products are lower-quality. Johnson, of the 2008 book Disrupting Class.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since 2U started in 2008, it has fronted more than $1 billion to colleges and university partners. In exchange, the colleges give up a large portion of the revenue from those online programs for a set number of years.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 4, “Technology Curves.” That’s not where the chapter begins. ” (2247).

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

It came from George Siemens, a longtime leader in trying to understand the impact of technology on higher ed. He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. 2008 was a watershed moment with a decline in state funding. Learn more here.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

I think because I started to sound a bit like a fervent preacher when I started talking about teaching, learning and technology. I just got lucky when I came to UMW that they not only allowed, but encouraged me to take a similar approach to my work with instructional technology and bavatuesdays became the outlet for that.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Education Week : “ Maine Gov.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. The technology simply isn’t that good yet.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). The Department of Justice , 21 states, and the District of Columbia have reached a $864 million settlement with Moody’s Investors Service over the company’s role in faulty credit ratings that led to the financial crisis of 2008.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

“technologizing” the government. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” The list of which education technology companies have raised the most money is more so.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Oh, how very different “the politics of education (technology)” drumbeat sounds from some ed-tech publications: Trump will mean more “ innovation ” in higher ed, according to eCampus News. Via Campus Technology : “ AP Exam Pass Rates Rise Even as Participation Doubles.” Galore has raised $1.65

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We’ve seen this from other states during the first few years after the 2008 financial crisis. This has not generally been the case since 2008, but is a possible trend to watch. Technology doesn’t seem to play a role in the debate. No sign of, say, expanding distance learning, or drawing on MOOCs.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

When it came to technology, a tripartite division had opened up. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. Having presented these four possible responses, I concluded with a quick recommendation about technology usage.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). To borrow from Jello Biaffra, “MOOCs aren’t dead, they just deserve to die.” ” There’s more MOOC-related news in the nanodegree section below.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” Excellent work, education technology industry. Via Campus Technology : “ Online Learning Consortium , Tyton Partners Launch Courseware in Context.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

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

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “Digital credentials company Credly is adopting the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), a common markup language designed to improve discoverability of certifications, badges and other verified achievements. .” MOOCs are out. Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies.

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