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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. What The Chronicle of Higher Education christened a “ credentials craze ” was in full swing.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

Last week, a colleague asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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How a Parody Twitter Account Helps Decode the Hulking Educause Conference (And What to Expect This Year)

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When he first started the account in 2010, he told no one, and he snuck to corners of the conference center so no one would catch him in the 140-character act. remotely accessible). WHAT DEVICE PUNY HUMAN BRING TO ANAHEIM! ANY PUNY HUMAN SMARTPHONE ONLY! NOT TRENDY ANYMORE! EDUCAUSE HULK (@EDUCAUSE_HULK) October 14, 2016.

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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. Naturally I find two key features absent or woefully underplayed, namely technology and adjunctification. That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text.

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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. Naturally I find two key features absent or woefully underplayed, namely technology and adjunctification. That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text.

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Today’s Awkward Zoom Classes Could Bring a New Era of Higher Education

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But they are also–subtly, and critically–the result of technological change. In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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