Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. ” Because that’s where things seem to be headed in 2015.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion. Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Gamification. TeachThought is developing a mobile learning framework and definition that will be released in early 2015. I really believe I could have hit a mosquito in the eye with a pine needle at thirty paces; I couldn’t miss because there was no such thing as a miss.” ” Game-Based Learning. Genius Hour. .”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Pokemon Go : “Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification,” according to Education Dive at least. Or MOOCs even. So who do you believe? The scientists? The engineers? Blockchain : “ 10 amazing ways Blockchain could be used in education ” by Donald Clark. (I’ll Bonus: “ 5.3 Hype wanes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. ” “ The Educational Potential of Pokémon Go.”

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