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29 Sessions to Watch During This Year's SXSW EDU

Edsurge

With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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Beyond K-12: EdSurge’s Next Move

Edsurge

Early signs suggest that technology, smartly chosen and carefully implemented, can improve learners’ outcomes, lower costs and ease difficult transitions. Networks: The beta of our Digital Learning Network aims to link scholars, practitioners, institutional leaders and entrepreneurs driving change at their institutions and companies.

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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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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” But I face them all the time, particularly on Twitter.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4

Bryan Alexander

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. In fact, the frequency of treating alone accounts for most of the variation in learning outcomes…” Plug this into the digital world, and. That’s not where the chapter begins. What do you make of it?

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Equity in #EdTech: A Report Review

ProfHacker

Justin Reich and Mizuko (Mimi) Ito have recently published a report entitled From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies. One case of particular interest was how MITx/EdX worked to reduce the global achievement gap in MOOCs (p. MOOCs vs Open textbooks).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. ” “ Zynga ’s Headquarters Is Worth More Than The Actual Company.” But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”