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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Maybe in 2015 as the universities that signed up to new contracts in 2009/10/11 start to come out of contract and look for something different. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. Nothing new in the LMS space. I really don’t expect anything big in 2014.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Maybe in 2015 as the universities that signed up to new contracts in 2009/10/11 start to come out of contract and look for something different. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. Nothing new in the LMS space. I really don’t expect anything big in 2014.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site.

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S3: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Innovations (Including OER)

Iterating Toward Openness

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.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

Hack Education

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?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals.

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