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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

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Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning. And we’re giving you a spread! STICKING TO THOSE RESOLUTIONS? Was he right?

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers. What’s my favorite EdSurge HigherEd article?

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. That should extend into 2016.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the US News & World Report : “The 2016 U.S.