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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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

Hack Education

.” For me, still framing my work that way – “top trends” – is a purposeful rhetorical move to shed light, to subvert, to offer a sly commentary of sorts on the shallowness of what passes as journalism, criticism, analysis. 2009 – the phones in their pockets. The quotation is from 2012.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). OpenClassrooms , a French MOOC provider according to Techcrunch, has raised $60 million from Bpifrance, General Atlantic, Alven Capital, and Citizen Capital. Via The Associated Press : “Schools See Steep Drop in Librarians , New Analysis Finds.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And as Essa told Inside Higher Ed , the problems with the data and analysis also raised questions about education technology research more broadly: “Maybe one of the conclusions that could be derived from this is that we really don’t have a strong community to test and validate these claims? Uber for Education". “We They want the bundle.

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps. The State Department did partner with Coursera – Laureate Education is an investor – to promote MOOCs globally.