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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." million students.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

Edsurge

Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? How could we apply the same practices to learning? I’ve come to believe that one of the biggest misunderstandings about online learning is that it has to be limited to things that can be done in front of a computer screen.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M. We can debate which one.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Casey sees it not as a tool for learning, nor much of an administrative tool, but a content dissemination platform, “like a supermarket scanner” (cites Cat Finnegan’s research in the Virginia community college system).

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. Often they haven’t experienced digital teaching, or they were socialized through the LMS and grew used to the locked down experience. RECLAIM HOSTING.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. Often they haven’t experienced digital teaching, or they were socialized through the LMS and grew used to the locked down experience. RECLAIM HOSTING.

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