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

Edsurge

Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! Sunny Lee: Part of our job at EdSurge is to report on, speak at, strike conversations and make connections at edtech conferences throughout the year. The interview, “ Why U.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

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. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

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. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. The hype bubble burst in America, but other countries seem to be interested.

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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

Edsurge

It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs.

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