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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. The focus is on tertiary education. The MOOC backlash.

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

This quote is a great reminder that if we can get students curious and motivated to learn, we can set them up for a lifelong love of learning. And as a teacher, you have the power to help them find that passion for learning while they are young. Research also suggests that online learning can encourage intrinsic motivation.[1]

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Technology Integration Research Review

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Edutopia. Read our article about successful technology integration for more ideas on the many different ways teachers and schools are integrating technology today. Learning Outcomes. To read more research-based articles on Online Learning, visit the Edutopia website.

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The Digital Bridge

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We’ve been waiting for evidence that online education can fulfill its promise to reach underserved students and expand opportunity. The limits — and potential — of massive online open courses. Read the original version here.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. The focus is on tertiary education. The MOOC backlash.

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Team 4443 Sock Monkeys Once Again!

Dangerously Irrelevant

The 2014-2015 season FTC game is called “Cascade Effect.” and the other being the Oskaloosa Herald, our town newspaper (here’s an article they wrote about us ) We have also done a lot of outreach! Please watch the posts and stay updated! Online instruction, stubborn resistance, and stupid faculty.

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

Hack Education

Silicon Valley's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress." His Wikipedia entry also fails to mention AllLearn.).