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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. I’m sure we will.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. I’m sure we will.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.

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