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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

This spyware extracts an incredible amount of information from students, including their biometric data, audio, and video, and then runs it through proprietary algorithms designed to identify suspicious behavior that might signal cheating. Proctorio was founded at Arizona State.). Online test proctoring is pretty abhorrent. Unfathomable.

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

Bryan Alexander

million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) (13).

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

Bryan Alexander

million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) (13).

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Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

Hack Education

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," as Rahm Emanuel, then President Obama's chief of staff, said in 2009 as the world teetered on the brink of recession. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. Junior high students watched TV for about a third of their school day; for high school students, it was about 10%.

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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. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes.

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

Hack Education

Because of the amount of information that is published about ed-tech – the amount of information, its irrelevance, its incoherence, its lack of context – it can be quite challenging to keep up with what is really happening in ed-tech. It is creating an unprecedented explosion in the production of information.

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How Listening and Sharing Help Shape Collaborative Learning Experiences

MindShift

The first four ingredients—joint attention, listening, sharing, and coordinating—support the exchange of information. The fifth ingredient is understanding why people are offering the information they do. A conflict of opinions can enhance learning (Johnson & Johnson, 2009).