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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?). “Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School,” Education Week reported in August. There’s no way to opt out apparently.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. 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.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. 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.

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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 ). Research studies evaluating the impact of OER frequently report whether or not the grades received by students changed after their faculty began using OER. versus 2.6).

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

Hack Education

The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the latest NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education. I have written quite a bit about the problems (as I see them) with the Horizon Report, most recently in a talk I gave last fall at VCU: “ The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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