Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here is a list of all the articles I wrote as part of my look at the “ Top Ed-Tech Trends ” of the year. “Trends” is perhaps the wrong word here. These are my observations about what’s happened in education technology (and education more broadly) over the course of the past 12 months.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

According to data from Burning Glass Technologies, 19 percent of U.S. The master’s degree market is also a hotbed of innovation, as some of the world’s top universities are now experimenting with MOOC-based degrees at substantially lower price points. (The Graduate education has been a bright spot in U.S. Back in 1995, only 4.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. If we can accept that the world is complex, that education is complex, why are so many of our technologies about compliance?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. TEN YEARS OF EDUCATION RESEARCH has shown we are failing to use technology effectively with underserved students, who are mostly subjected to “drill-and-practice or remediation” activities, writes Molly B. Zielezinski.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Last week I led a new Future Trends Forum with a twist. Here’s an outline of topics that came up, partly from my FTTE observations, partly from participants: Education and its contexts : I mentioned recent trends about state funding to public higher ed (increasing!), The combination worked well.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. We shall see. An example?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” he asks.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. Trends affecting the adoption of technology in schools. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition).

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 25, 2016

Scott Brinker has released the 2016 marketing technology landscape diagram, mapping 3,874 solutions into six capability categories (shows above). But 80% of adults having “not much awareness” of MOOCs was higher than I might have imagined. A new Pew report explores U.S. 1 – Use a password manager.). . (#1

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. So, what have we gleaned? The interview, “ Why U.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 7, 2016

Many of them are about new technologies. The Horizon report has a monopoly on this for educaion, using a virtual round table of 'experts' to whittle down all the possibilities into one or two trends that they think will be prevalent in education in the next one year, 2-3 years and 4-5 years. MOOCs won't be the end.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 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. This trend holds true across other online courses. billion kilometers, and gave each other 1.3

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2016

October 12, 2016. EDUCAUSE HULK (@EDUCAUSE_HULK) October 14, 2016. Bringing Adaptive Technology in the Classroom to Larger Scale through Academic Collaboration with Thomas Cavanagh (University of Central Florida), Constance Johnson (Colorado Technical University) and Christi Ford (University of Maryland University College) Friday.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

On March 30 we had Jim Groom as our Future Trends Forum guest. Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. And Jim blogged about it.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

On March 30 we had Jim Groom as our Future Trends Forum guest. Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. And Jim blogged about it.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Is education technology investing back on track? After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. Education technology investments appear to be on a similar trajectory.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. Here's a bit of what I said. And that's surveillance.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

There are all sorts of possibilities thanks to new technologies. Although distance education has been in existence for more than a century, the various technological means by which it can now be conducted have advanced quickly. I hope to see you there!

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

One idea that may not be that controversial, but which needs to be shored up and practiced more across North America, is integration with real world experience, particularly in the information technology sector. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” In some ways, this is nothing new.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. The Chinese Ministry of Education is encouraging the growth of local MOOCs, with a policy that sets targets of 1,000 from Chinese universities by 2017 and 3,000 by 2020. billion by 2018.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. Either way. as well as honored to be here.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here are some of the trends that you'll start to notice in corporate learning in the near future. In general, the industries most responsive to these new developments are technology-based ones, usually with a young employee demographic.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2017: The Stories We’ve Been Told. At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. No, fidget spinners were not a “top ed-tech trend” this year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Five professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have some answers. In part, this adopts a model some MIT professors already use, called a Small Private Online Course, or SPOC —a customized adaption of the Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, that sparked wide attention a decade ago.

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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. I mean, the Cubs did win the World Series in 2016. ” Education technology faces an inexhaustible supply of quackery.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via Campus Technology: “ CUNY to Train, Hire 2,000 Students in Free Coding Bootcamps.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” ” More via The NYT : “Uber Hid 2016 Breach, Paying Hackers to Delete Stolen Data.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. EdSurge Independent is a student-run community that meets online once a week to discuss trends and ideas within postsecondary education, and share their experiences on a student-run Medium blog. This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC. Battushig Myanganbayar, MIT).

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