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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners).

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S. government’s data center, Dava.gov, is a goldmine of open student and school data. But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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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 ? It includes all the buzzwords : competency-based education, personalized learning, and even blockchain! Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. I have been busy with my year-in-review, but I will be updating my Horizon Report “data liberation” project with as much data as I can scrape from the NMC website before it all goes away.).