The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Alec Couros is a Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy.

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MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.” The third: lifelong learning. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.) million total.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” ” The Business of Job Training.

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MAY 13, 2016

” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via Education Week : “ Teach For America Ends Pre-Training Pilot Focused on Cultural Competency.” charter school.”

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software.

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