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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier). Her research focuses on emerging technologies such as drones, robotics, driverless vehicles, artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality, and their use in libraries and education. Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

Audience question] I’m wondering what schools are doing with their alumni to support their students, whether that be in the curriculum, involving them in virtual learning, or through any other means, especially with the class of 2020 that is most likely not going to have official commencement ceremonies or have those postponed.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. Major employers are embracing libraries of video and MOOC courses, tuition-assistance programs for online courses, and bootcamps focused on tech skills (which have themselves moved online).

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The quotation is from 2012.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOCMOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. “A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs ” – an op-ed by Class Central ’s Dhawal Shah in Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. billion by 2020, according to Futuresource Consulting, Ltd.”

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