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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The focus is on tertiary education.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

Edsurge

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 I could hardly blame them.

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Income Share Agreements Dominate Y Combinator’s Latest Education Graduates

Edsurge

The education industry’s current fascination with income share agreements—in which students typically pay a percent of their future income in lieu of upfront tuition—is no better exemplified than in the current crop of graduates from Y Combinator. We are seeing these spread around the world.” Here’s a look at the latest edtech crop.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

Edsurge

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? So we also asked deLaplante what he thinks about the broader landscape of online education that he’s part of. The vision was partly to be mobile. I threw it all up there back in 2013.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The focus is on tertiary education.

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Conference 2.0 Updates - STEMxCon Proposals Open, Library 2.013 Acceptances, GlobalEdCon Updates, OZeLive, & More

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Like MOOCs, only more intimate. :) Because the events are virtual and we don''t have the traditional time/space/travel constraints of a physical event, we''ve boldly gone past the traditional conference model of "vetting and selecting" presenters to inclusion and audience choice. Please join us for one or all of these events.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

This is such a strange and necessary time to talk about education technology, to take a class about education technology, to get a degree in education technology because what, in the past, was so often framed as optional or aspirational is now compulsory — and compulsory under some of the worst possible circumstances.

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