Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way.

MOOC 89

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way.

MOOC 32

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

These writings included ideas like the golden ratio ( 2009 ), the OER impact factor ( 2014 ), and thinking more broadly about impact ( 2018 ). You could use it to measure the impact of “things” like learning analytics or iPads or augmented reality. This framework will be continuously improved over time.

OER 165

OER Education Course Learning Analytics 165

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The topic names have been modified “for consistency,” the report’s authors say (although I’m a little unclear about some of these choices – how are “mobile learning,” “tablet computing,” and “bring your own device” separate technological developments?

Learning Analytics 68

Learning Analytics LMS Robotics Trends 68

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145