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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

OER and open books. Digital badges. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. Digital badges are intended to signify authenticated knowledge and skills from informal learning environments. Learning analytics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. What’s next?” ” Go, School Sports Team!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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