Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Among other things, Jim Groom is Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He is nicknamed the 'Reverend' (oh the irony), and is a purveyor of American pop culture, experimental educational technology and out-of-left-field philosophy. Dave Kernohan).

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). For example, 2015 world champion Kenyan javelin thrower Julius Yego claims he owes his prowess to watching YouTube videos.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

Recently on this blog I featured an interview with Martin Weller , one of the keynote speakers for EDEN 2015. I think because I started to sound a bit like a fervent preacher when I started talking about teaching, learning and technology. And it quickly resonated with a lot of people. In fact, far more than I could have ever imagined.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. I want to start this year’s review of education technology sanctioning, if such a thing is necessary, our mourning. ” Education technology faces an inexhaustible supply of quackery. Mourn and Organize. We need not hide our feelings.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” ” asks MIT Technology Review. Then it re-opened.

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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. ” But these wild proclamations – wishful thinking , no doubt – tended to overlook the realities of mobile technology and education. .”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. National) Education Politics. million total.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Campus Technology reports that Davidson College is partnering with Revature to offering coding classes to its students and graduates. Education in the Courts. ” Maybe.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It’s not that paying for a piece of technology will treat you any better, mind you.).

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

million from a business that pulled in almost $1 billion in revenue in 2015 – with no fines, penalties, or admission of wrongdoing. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” ” “Schools That Integrate Technology: Silicon Valley ” by Larry Cuban.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Trump administration on Thursday withdrew 2015 guidance issued by the Obama administration that barred student loan guarantee agencies from charging collection fees to defaulted borrowers who start repaying their loans quickly.” Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?).

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.” ” “Whither Moodle ?”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Among the details, Buzzfeed reports , “Black employees now make up 9% of the company’s workforce, up from 8% in 2015; the number of Asians has increased from 18% to 19%; and Hispanics are up from 11% to 12%.” MOOCs, CAI, and now this.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” Via GeekWire : “ Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K–12 technology.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. Testing, Testing… From the OECD : “ PISA 2015 Results.” More on the politics of higher education in the national politics section above.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” ” Another Duke story – The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the school’s Technology Scholars Project: “ Steering More Women to Silicon Valley.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). weeks in 2015.” ” Here’s the rub: it’s an LMS. “Is Estonia the new Finland ?”

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012. ” Larry Cuban on “ Integrating Technology In Classrooms: Teach To One in a Oakland Charter School.”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via Education Week : “ Minecraft Party to Raise Money for Technology in Philly Schools.” This coding bootcamp was acquired by the University of Phoenix’s parent company, Apollo Education Group , in 2015. “ Credly Receives Open Badges Certification ,” Campus Technology reports. ” asks Edutopia.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A judge will allow Ohio ’s education department to review attendance records that could force Ohio’s largest online charter to return millions of its funding,” says the AP. . “ UT Austin and SMOCs : What do we know about whether they work?”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill on layoffs at the LMS Schoology.

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