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How Universities Can Grow a Culture of Academic Innovation

Edsurge

This is especially the case when it comes to education technology and curricular innovation. Worrying over questions about culture, data and technology could easily constrain our thinking from the start. Then consider constraints. Welcome talented student contributors.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about?

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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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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. ” And his partner Michael Feldstein : “ Student-Centered Educational Software.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via MIT Technology Review : “ DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one.” National) Education Politics. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. ” Via The Clarion-Ledger : “Contracts between the Mississippi Department of Education and two of the state superintendent’s former co-workers appear to duplicate technology-related services while costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).